African trypanosomiasis ... The fly then becomes part of the parasite’s life cycle, helping it grow and multiply. After about three weeks, the newly transformed parasites make their way to ...

Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of African sleeping sickness ... adapt metabolically and transcriptionally. This complex life cycle involves specialised subcellular architectures ...

Sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis ... Genetic mutations have simplified the parasite's life cycle, allowing direct infection of animals and potentially humans. Strains of these ...

Popularly known as sleeping sickness or African trypanosomiasis ... found genetic mutations in parasites that simplify their ...

Sleeping sickness can cause flu-like symptoms initially but eventually causing behaviour change, confusion, sleep cycle disturbances ... form of human African trypanosomiasis: Togo (2020), Benin ...

Leading to its namesake, a disturbed sleep cycle is one of the significant symptoms emphasised by the WHO. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT ...

Causative agent and its life cycle Two distinct kinetoplastid flagellates can cause human African trypanosomiasis: Trypanosoma brucei var. gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei var. rhodesiense , which ...

African sleeping sickness (Human African Trypanosomiasis ... and affects the sleep cycle, hence the name. The disease is mainly transmitted by tsetse flies that feed on human blood, but can ...