African trypanosomes are unicellular flagellated parasites causing trypanosomiases in
Africa, a group of severe diseases also known as sleeping sickness in human and nagana …

Trypanosomosis is one of the most significant infectious threats to cattle in sub-Saharan
Africa, and one form has also spread to Asia and South America. The disease is caused by a …

Hybrid populations and introgressive hybridization remain poorly documented in pathogenic
micro‐organisms, as such that genetic exchange has been argued to play a minor role in …

Owing to the absence of antiparasitic vaccines and the constant threat of drug resistance,
the development of novel antiparasitic chemotherapies remains of major importance for …

The disease caused by T. vivax is commonly called Nagana in Africa and
“secadera/cachera/cacho hueco/huequera” in parts of South America. This chapter will focus …

Linkage mapping–utilizing experimental genetic crosses to examine cosegregation of
phenotypic traits with genetic markers–is now 100 years old. Schistosome parasites are …

Until the early 1980s, parasites had been the almost exclusive domain of traditional
parasitologists. By then, behavioural ecologists started to realise that the selective pressures …

Although wild chimpanzees and other African great apes live in regions endemic for African
sleeping sickness, very little is known about their trypanosome infections, mainly due to …

Animal trypanosomosis caused by Trypanosoma vivax (T. vivax) is a devastating disease
causing serious economic losses. Most molecular diagnostics for T. vivax infection target the …

Trypanosomatidae are a dangerous family of Euglenobionta parasites that threaten the
health and economy of millions of people around the world. More precisely describing the …