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2 unusual facts about trypanosoma


Diminazen

Diminazen(e) is an antiinfective drug for animals commercialized as Azidin, Berenil, Ganasag or Pirocide, directed, e.g., against infections with Babesia, Trypanosoma and Cytauxzoon and some bacteria such as Brucella and Streptococcus.

Triatoma dominicana

This association is the oldest known example of the vector association between Triatoma and Trypanosoma.


Félix Mesnil

In 1903, together with Alphonse Laveran (1845–1922), he showed that the parasite responsible for the visceral leishmaniasis (or Kala-azar, a fever in India), first described by William Boog Leishman (1865–1926), is a new protozoa, different from Trypanosoma, the agent of the sleeping sickness, and from Plasmodium, the agent of paludism (malaria).

Glycoprotein

Variable surface glycoproteins allow the sleeping sickness Trypanosoma parasite to escape the immune response of the host.

John Lancelot Todd

In 1903 Todd and Dutton accepted an invitation by King Leopold II of Belgium to research the connection between trypanosoma and sleeping sickness in the Congo Free State.

Júlio Afrânio Peixoto

Chagas disease is a chronic and debilitating parasitosis caused by a trypanosome that is vectored by a biting bug in rural areas.

Red-eyed Vireo

and trypanosomans might affect these birds not infrequently, as was noted in studies of birds caught in Parque Nacional de La Macarena and near Turbo (Colombia): though only three Red-eyed Vireos were examined, all were infected with at least one of these parasites.


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