Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections ...

This image shows a three-dimensional map of the basic structural unit in the parasite Trypanosoma brucei’s ... survive in both the tsetse fly and the human bloodstream, making their flagellum ...

Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis caused by Trypanosoma cruzi), transmitted by triatomines (kissing bugs), affects by some estimates as many as 9-10 million people around the world. In total, ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections caused by microscopic ...

Each of the underlying single-celled parasites—Trypanosoma brucei and its relatives ... motion to survive in both the tsetse fly and the human bloodstream, making their flagellum a central ...