Kissing bugs tend to bite people on the face and near the mouth. They carry a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi, which can develop into an infection. Triatomine bugs, or triatomines, are native to ...

The African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei is a unicellular pathogen that causes lethal sleeping sickness in humans, which is a devastating and neglected tropical disease that is endemic to vast ...

Bed bugs, like the triatomines, can transmit Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease, one of the most prevalent and deadly diseases in the Americas, research has confirmed.

In 2015 alone, the DRC had 84% of reported cases. Human African trypanosomiasis is caused by Trypanosoma brucei parasites that are spread by the bite of infected tsetse flies. Its transmission is ...

The protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted to humans by Triatomine bugs (also known as “kissing bugs”) and causes Chagas disease, begins to reproduce as soon as it enters the human body.

A new study looking at deadly animal African trypanosomiasis has revealed how the parasite Trypanosoma congolense evades the immune system and drives severe disease in livestock. Researchers from ...

Die Schlafkrankheit (Humane Afrikanische Trypanosomiasis) wird durch einen Parasiten namens Trypanosoma brucei verursacht, welcher als Zwischenwirt die Tsetsefliege nutzt. Die Krankheit kommt in den ...

Trypanosoma, Gatt. der Trypanosomatidea, in der sich eine Reihe wichtiger Krankheitserreger bei Wirbeltieren befindet. ( vgl. Tab.) Überträger und Zwischenwirte sind meist Fliegen (Tsetsefliegen u.a.