Trypanosoma

(noun)

infects a variety of hosts and cause various diseases, including the fatal African sleeping sickness in humans

Related Terms

Examples of Trypanosoma in the following topics:

  • Excavata

    • The human parasite, Trypanosoma brucei, belongs to a different subgroup of Euglenozoa, the kinetoplastids.
    • Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of sleeping sickness, spends part of its life cycle in the tsetse fly and part in humans.

  • Protists as Human Pathogens

    • Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite that is responsible for African sleeping sickness, confounds the human immune system by changing its thick layer of surface glycoproteins with each infectious cycle .