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 ...

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 ...