The Leishmaniacs solve the case of the Child With Band Keratopathy, and reveal a eukaryotic parasite with functional mitochondria but without mitochondrial genomes. Hosts: <a href= "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Racaniello" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Vincent Racaniello</a>, <a href= "http://www.thelivingriver.org/" target="_blank" rel= "noreferrer noopener">Dickson Despommier</a>, and <a href= "http://www.parasiteswithoutborders.com/who-we-are/" target= "_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Daniel Griffin</a> Subscribe (free): <a href= "http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=340512495" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">iTunes</a>, <a href= "https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cDovL3R3aXAubWljcm9iZXdvcmxkLmxpYnN5bnByby5jb20vcnNz" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Google Podcasts</a>, <a href= "http://twip.microbeworld.libsynpro.com/rss" target="_blank" rel= "noreferrer noopener">RSS</a>, <a href= "http://eepurl.com/Gcw59" target="_blank" rel= "noreferrer noopener">email</a> Become a <a href="http://microbe.tv/contribute" target= "_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">patron</a> of TWiP. Links for this episode: <ul> <li><a href= "https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2019/beloved-dartmouth-professor-and-internationally-recognized-scientist-elmer-pfefferkorn-dies/"> Elmer Pfefferkorn, 87</a></li> <li>Eukaryotic parasite without <a href= "https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/4/eaav1110.full">mitochondrial genomes</a> (Sci Adv)</li> <li>Hero: <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wardell_Stiles">Charles Wardell Stiles</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.microbe.tv/twip/twip-171-letters/">Letters read</a> on TWiP 171</li> </ul> Case Study for TWiP 171 By boat to remote village, young boy (

TWiP 172: A painless lesion

TWiP is a monthly netcast about eukaryotic parasites. Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier, science Professors from Columbia University, deconstruct parasites, how they cause illness, and how you can prevent infections.