Browsing School of Agriculture & Food Science by Subject "Trypanosome"
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A fine-tuned vector-parasite dialogue in tsetse's cardia determines peritrophic matrix integrity and trypanosome transmission success
(PLoS Pathog, 2018)Arthropod vectors have multiple physical and immunological barriers that impede the development and transmission of parasites to new vertebrate hosts. These barriers include the peritrophic matrix (PM), a chitinous barrier ... -
Tsetse fly saliva: Could it be useful in fly infection when feeding in chronically aparasitemic mammalian hosts.
(Open Veterinary Journal, 2012)Sleeping sickness and nagana are two important diseases cuased by African trypanosomes in humans and animals respectively, in tropical african countries. A number of trypanosome species are implicated in these diseases, ...