Pathogenic animal trypanosomes affecting livestock have represented a major constraint to
agricultural development in Africa for centuries, and their negative economic impact is …

Salivarian trypanosomes are single cell extracellular parasites that cause infections in a
wide range of hosts. Most pathogenic infections worldwide are caused by one of four major …

Sexual reproduction and clonality in eukaryotes are mostly seen as exclusive, the latter
being rather exceptional. This view might be biased by focusing almost exclusively on …

Viability of the tsetse fly-transmitted African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei depends on
maintenance and expression of its kinetoplast (kDNA), the mitochondrial genome of this …

Two key biological features distinguish Trypanosoma evansi from the T. brucei group:
independence from the tsetse fly as obligatory vector, and independence from the need for …

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 …

Kinetoplastids are protists defined by one of the most complex mitochondrial genomes in
nature, the kinetoplast. In the sleeping sickness parasite Trypanosoma brucei, the …

Background Livestock trypanosomoses, caused by three species of the Trypanozoon
subgenus, Trypanosoma brucei brucei, T. evansi and T. equiperdum is widely distributed …

Drug resistance in pathogenic protozoa is very often caused by changes to the
'transportome'of the parasites. In Trypanosoma brucei, several transporters have been …

Dourine is a venereal transmitted trypanosomosis causing a major health problem
threatening equines worldwide. The origin and identification of Trypanosoma equiperdum …