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 ...

Africa, Latin America, and certain regions of Asia face a heavy burden: diseases transmitted by insects, such as mosquitoes or tsetse flies. These often neglected diseases do not just devastate public ...

Bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei brucei were grown over baby hamster kidney cells in minimum essential medium with various concentrations of metronidazole (Flagyl) and chloroquine. Both drugs ...

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases ...

Trypanosoma are a nasty class of single-celled parasites that cause serious, even fatal, diseases in human and animals. Two species cause sleeping sickness, a disease that threatens all of ...

If left untreated, African Sleeping Sickness can causes meningoencephalitis, coma, and death. The disease is spread through tsetse flies that feed on infected hosts. In 2015, 84 percent of Trypanosoma ...

A new study sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases in cattle and other animals establishes long-term infections in hosts.

African Sleeping Sickness, also known as Human African Trypanosomiasis, is a tropical disease that evolves through distinct clinical stages. It ultimately results in meningoencephalitis, coma, and ...

Infections can present with many different symptoms, and one common symptom is wasting, which involves the loss of fat and in extreme cases lean muscle as well. Researchers in the lab of Salk ...