{"id":2567,"date":"2014-07-26T16:42:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T21:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2014-07-26T16:42:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T21:42:57","slug":"take-two-parasites-and-call-me-in-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/take-two-parasites-and-call-me-in-the-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Take two parasites and call me in the morning<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Two recent papers published by members of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) have questioned our traditional perception of intestinal parasites. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The first,\u00a0published July 14, 2014 in <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1471492214001081\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;\">Trends in Parasitology<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">is a systematic review of cases where humans have deliberately ingested parasites for research and suggests that certain parasites could have beneficial effects on conditions like Crohn\u2019s disease. The lead author himself ingested a large species of tapeworm and says he feels \u201cfine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The second paper,\u00a0published June 19, 2014 in<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/journal.frontiersin.org\/Journal\/10.3389\/fmicb.2014.00298\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\"> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Frontiers in Microbiology<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> looks at non-bacterial microbes in the human gut. Among other things, it finds that people with moderns, westernized lifestyles show less diversity in these microorganisms than people who live traditional, agrarian lifestyles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The two authors\u00a0are beginning a collaboration to investigate the use of controlled parasite infections as treatment for inflammatory bowel disorders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Julius Luke\u0161, Senior Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of South Bohemia, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Laura Wegener Parfrey, Associate, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, British Columbia<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two recent papers published by members of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) have questioned our traditional perception of intestinal parasites. The first,\u00a0published July 14, 2014 in Trends in Parasitology\u00a0is a systematic review of cases where humans have deliberately ingested parasites for research and suggests that certain parasites could have beneficial effects on conditions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,2040,53,103,476],"class_list":["post-2567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-intestinal-parasites","tag-medicine","tag-parasites","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Fp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}