trypanosoma
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Research problems linked to this topic
- In sub-Saharan Africa, tsetse flies are the vectors of trypanosomes, the causative agents of sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in animals.
- Salivarian trypanosomes are extracellular parasites causing anthroponotic and zoonotic infections.
- African Trypanosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease with a large impact on the livelihood of the rural poor in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Kissing bugs or triatomines (Reduviidae: Triatominae) are vectors of the Chagas' disease agent Trypanosoma cruzi.
- Chagas' disease, which is caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi affects approximately 18 million people in Latin America and still remains as a public health problem.
- The high variability among strains and isolates of Trypanosoma cruzi and the existence of shared antigenic determinants with other pathogens, particularly with members of the Leishmania genus make difficult the specific diagnosis of Chagas' disease.