This Week In Parasitism

TWiP solves the case of the man with somnolence and something extra-erythrocytic, and presents a new puzzle for you to solve. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Links for this episode Join the MicrobeTV Discord server Letters read on TWiP 253 New Case 26-year-old female with no past medical history.  Patient is from Georgia in the US and is volunteering in Hérico, Guinea (town in the Lélouma Prefecture in the Labé Region of northern-central Guinea). She arrived in Guinea in December  2023.  She was taking doxycycline for malaria prophylaxis and says that she has not missed any doses On October  2024 she presented with fever and dry cough.  Lab work was done and follow up planned for the following day.  The patient slept poorly, was febrile to 104 and had ongoing cough.  The next day she went to the hospital and was evaluated in the ER for acute febrile illness of unclear etiology.   In the hospital, VS were 97.9F, BP 1