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Trypanosoma brucei gambiense is the second type of protozoan which usually results in more chronic disease patterns. [15] Its main reservoir is the cattle populations. Although it is also fatal, death can take months or years to occur. [17] Geographical separation of these two variants of trypanosomes occurs along the Rift Valley.
Trypanosoma of both the rhodesiense and gambiense types can affect other animals such as cattle and wild animals. [1] African trypanosomiasis has generally been considered an anthroponotic disease and thus its control program was mainly focused on stopping the transmission by treating human cases and eliminating the vector.
Trypanosoma is a genus of kinetoplastids (class Trypanosomatidae [1]), a monophyletic [2] group of unicellular parasitic flagellate protozoa. Trypanosoma is part of the phylum Euglenozoa . [ 3 ] The name is derived from the Ancient Greek trypano- (borer) and soma (body) because of their corkscrew-like motion.
Trypanosoma brucei is a species of parasitic kinetoplastid belonging to the genus Trypanosoma that is present in sub-Saharan Africa.Unlike other protozoan parasites that normally infect blood and tissue cells, it is exclusively extracellular and inhabits the blood plasma and body fluids. [1]
What one nurse learned about humanity amidst the Ebola epidemic
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.
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Trypanosoma cruzi protozoa: Triatominae kissing bugs South America 6.2 million (2017) 7,900 (2017) fever, swollen lymph nodes, headache heart failure, enlarged esophagus, enlarged colon: African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) 1975 Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and T. b. rhodesiense protozoa Glossina tsetse flies sub-Saharan Africa 11,000 (2015)