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trypanosome

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Meaning

  1. noun Any of a group of protozoan parasites which are transmitted by biting insects and infect the blood of humans and other vertebrates; family Trypanosomatidae in class Kinetoplastea Any member of the genus Trypanosoma, of family Trypanosomatidae, including 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.
  2. noun Any member of the genus Trypanosoma, of family Trypanosomatidae, including Trypanosoma brucei, a major human pathogen that causes sleeping sickness. Trypanosoma cruzi, a major human pathogen that causes Chagas disease.
  3. noun Trypanosoma brucei, a major human pathogen that causes sleeping sickness.
  4. noun Trypanosoma cruzi, a major human pathogen that causes Chagas disease.
  5. noun Trypomastigotes, a morphological class of trypanosomatids with a flagellum laterally attached to the cell body.

Similar words

metacyclic trypanid leishmania trypanotolerance trypanosusceptibility premetacyclic hemoprotozoan hemoparasite treponema protozoonosis

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