What is the meaning of Trypanosome?

Any of a group of protozoan parasites which are transmitted by biting insects and infect the blood of humans and other vertebrates; order Trypanosomatida in class Kinetoplastea

  1. Trypanosoma, a genus within Trypanosomatida whose members are often referred to as trypanosomes
    1. Trypanosoma brucei, a major human pathogen that causes sleeping sickness.
    2. Trypanosoma cruzi, a major human pathogen that causes Chagas disease.
  2. Trypomastigotes, a morphological class of trypanosomatids with a flagellum laterally attached to the cell body.

Trypanosoma, a genus within Trypanosomatida whose members are often referred to as trypanosomes

  1. Trypanosoma brucei, a major human pathogen that causes sleeping sickness.
  2. Trypanosoma cruzi, a major human pathogen that causes Chagas disease.

Trypanosoma brucei, a major human pathogen that causes sleeping sickness.

Trypanosoma cruzi, a major human pathogen that causes Chagas disease.

Trypomastigotes, a morphological class of trypanosomatids with a flagellum laterally attached to the cell body.

trypanosome

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