Trypanosoma brucei is a species of parasitic kinetoplastid belonging to the genus Trypanosoma that is present in sub-Saharan Africa. Unlike other protozoan parasites that normally infect blood and tis
Tb brucei
A man having sleeping sickness at Buruma Island, Uganda.
SEM false colour micrograph of the procyclic form as found in the tsetse fly midgut. The cell body is shown in orange and the flagellum is in red. 84 pixels/μm.
Trypanosomatida is a group of kinetoplastid unicellular organisms distinguished by having only a single flagellum. The name is derived from the Greek trypano and soma because of the corkscrew-like mot
Trypanosoma brucei
…VSGs) which is replaced by an equally dense coat of procyclins when the parasite differentiates into the procyclic phase in the tsetse fly midgut. Trypanosomatids show several different classes of cellular organisation of which two are adopted by T. brucei at different stages of the life cycle: Epimastigote, which…
Trypanosoma cruzi crithidia
Amastigote: False colour SEM micrograph of amastigote form Leishmania mexicana. The cell body is shown in orange and the flagellum is in red. 219 pixels/μm.