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Researchers have demonstrated the Meselson effect for the first time in any organism at a genome-wide level, studying a parasite called Trypanosoma brucei gambiense.
Using an innovative in vitro model of the blood-brain barrier, Dennis Grab of Johns Hopkins University and his colleagues found that Trypanosoma brucei gambiense requires calcium ions and cysteine ...
Pentamidine isethionate – This chemical compound was discovered in 1940 and is primarily used to treat patients infected by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (West African sleeping sickness).
Gambiense HAT is caused by the microscopic parasite Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and is transmitted by the tsetse fly found in sub-Saharan Africa.
Abstract The African parasite Trypanosoma brucei gambiense accounts for 97% of human sleeping sickness cases. T. b.
Health experts are warning of a potentially fatal but little-known disease called human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) - also ...
Different subspecies infect different hosts: Trypanosoma brucei brucei infects cattle but is non-infectious to humans, whereas T. b. gambiense and T. b. rhodesiense cause sleeping sickness in humans.
The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Chad for having eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, as a public health problem.
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), commonly referred to as sleeping sickness, is a protozoan parasitic infection transmitted by the tsetse fly. Its two causative agents, Trypansoma brucei gambiense ...
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