CHAGAS' DISEASE Chagas disease is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, a flagellate protozoan parasite. This organism belongs to the taxonomic family Trypanosomatidae within the order Kinetoplastida. It exhibits a high level of intraspecific variation, making it a difficult disease for scientists to...
to be altered in Chagas' disease (a parasitic infection caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi), since it has been established that corticosterone levels are increased during the acute phase of murine T. cruzi infection (Leite de Moraes etal., 1991). On Endocrine-immune interactions the...
Introduction 2 Objectives 3 Taxonomic Classification 3 Trypanosoma brucei architecture 4 Trypanosoma brucei diversity 5 Distribution 6 Life cycle 7 Conclusion 8 References 8 Introduction Trypanosoma brucei are microscopic extracellular flagellate protozoa under...
forms of African sleeping sickness, caused by two different parasites: Trypanosoma brucei gambiense , which causes a chronic infection lasting years and affecting countries of western and central Africa Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense , which causes acute illness lasting several weeks in countries...
accepted and included in the WHO List of Essential Medicine, and it is provided free of charge for this purpose by WHO to endemic countries. The Trypanosoma parasite exists in two sub-species in Africa. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that the disease threatens 70 million people in the poorest...
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to light. The candidate kingdom Euglenozoa (Euglenophyta) has these examples: - Euglena sp. - Autotrophic - Trypanosoma sp. - are heterotrophs -are pathogens - cause African sleeping sickness and arre spread by the bite of the...
large number of malaria cases. There he observed the infestation of the 'Kissing Bug' and discovered that the intestines of these insects contain Trypanosoma (parasitic protozoa) which could be transferred to the victim if bitten by the bug. He suspected that this parasite could affect humans and after...