Kevin Liévano-Romero abandoned a veterinary career in Colombia to move to the United States, where he studies feared but ...

Founded in 1900, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation has made fundamental contributions to the basic understanding of infectious ...

You might expect danger to come with claws or size, but the real threat often comes in small, quiet forms. These animals kill using venom, parasites, or pure stealth. And in some cases, just being in ...

The researchers studied the pathogen that causes the African sleeping sickness Trypanosoma brucei. Trypanosomes have unique cell organelles, so-called glycosomes, which are essential for the survival ...

Trypanosoma evansi, which causes surra, is descended from Trypanosoma brucei brucei, which causes nagana. Although both parasites are presumed to be metabolically similar, insufficient knowledge of T.

Proline racemase is an important enzyme of Trypanosoma cruzi and has been shown to be an effective mitogen for B cells, thus contributing to the parasite's immune evasion and persistence in the human ...

aDepartment of Epidemiology, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA bInstitute for Infectious Disease Translational Research, University of South Carolina, ...

Center of Natural and Human Sciences, Federal University of ABC, 09210-170 Santo Andre, SP, Brazil ...

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Trypanosoma cruzi presents a complex life cycle both in the vertebrate and invertebrate hosts, involving dramatic changes in cell shape . Its life cycle involves several developmental stages that are ...

For the first time, patients in Malawi can take a pill instead of enduring toxic IV drugs to survive a fast-moving and deadly ...