r/Parasitology

26 Male 5’9, 210, Escitalopram and Buspirone. Past smoker.

Hi, recently purchased a home that has a hot tub. The water cycles every couple of hours, but I recently learned that Nalgleria Fowleri can live in hot tubs. The water in the hot tub doesn’t have a sludge or slimy smell. I don’t remember water shooting up my nose, but I’ve had a sore neck, and a slight headache along (worse at night) with a sore throat that developed around 36 hours after getting out of the hot tub. I’m worried that I have like… 4 days max to live. I have a daughter, and I want to be here for her.

ey guys,

We just bought an unfenced plot to build a house. Quickly realized everyone in the neighborhood let their dogs do their business there for years – there was dog poop everywhere.

Without thinking, I just buried most of it while clearing the lot. Now I'm wondering if I messed up regarding parasite eggs in the soil. We have a toddler and a dog (who actually had severe gut parasites before, so we're pretty paranoid about it).

What's the best move here to make the ground safe?

• Did I screw up by burying it?
• Should we deep plow the whole thing? Scrape off and haul away the topsoil? Or just bring in a thick layer of fresh dirt to cover it all?

Let me know if I'm totally overthinking this. Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a small side project to help visualize different kinds of omics data related to Plasmodium falciparum. I usually find myself jumping between a bunch of different databases for my own work, so I decided to put together a basic portal to centralize some of this for P. falciparum 3D7.

You can check it out here: https://jayanth-vegesna.github.io/Plasmodium/

Here is a quick breakdown of what I’ve integrated so far and where the data is from:

Genome Browser: A chromosome browser and sequence extractor for the 14 chromosomes. Annotations are from PlasmoDB-68, with var, rifin, and stevor genes identified via NCBI and PlasmoDB.

Proteome Dashboard: A 3D protein structure viewer with pLDDT confidence scores, using models from the AlphaFold DB.

Transcriptome Explorer: Time-series charts tracking gene activity (TPM values) during the intraerythrocytic development cycle. The data is derived from the Chappell et al. (2020) DAFT-Seq dataset.

Interactome: Basic protein-protein interaction networks sourced from the STRING database (v12.0).

Spatial Atlas: A visual map for exploring protein localization within subcellular organelles, using annotations from UniProt.

Gene Ontology: A network visualization for exploring biological processes and molecular functions, using GO terms from PlasmoDB.

Since this is just a small project I'm tinkering with, I would really appreciate any feedback from you all.

If you have a minute to test it out, let me know if you run into any bugs, or if there are things I could potentially add, remove, or improve in general. Honest criticism is highly welcome!

Thanks for taking a look.