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Trypanosoma brucei is a parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in livestock and is transmitted by the tsetse fly. (lincoln.ac.uk)
Trypanosoma brucei ssp. (cdc.gov)
Genome-wide subcellular protein map for the flagellate parasite Trypanosoma brucei. (ox.ac.uk)
Trypanosoma brucei is a model trypanosomatid, an important group of human, animal and plant unicellular parasites. (ox.ac.uk)
We identified the infecting parasite as Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense . (cdc.gov)
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as African sleeping sickness, is caused by different subspecies of the blood parasite Trypanosoma brucei . (cdc.gov)
Identification of paralogous life-cycle stage specific cytoskeletal proteins in the parasite Trypanosoma brucei. (ox.ac.uk)
The life cycle of the African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei, is characterised by a transition between insect and mammalian hosts representing very different environments that present the parasite with very different challenges. (ox.ac.uk)
In some HAT foci, pigs were found infected by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense but the implication of the other domestic animals was not quite evaluated. (parasite-journal.org)
Une des explications possibles de la pérennité et/ou de la résurgence des foyers historiques de la maladie du sommeil (THA) en Afrique Centrale et de l'Ouest serait l'existence d'un réservoir animal sauvage et/ou domestique de Trypanosoma brucei gambiense . (parasite-journal.org)
Fexinidazole (MW not specified) is indicated to treat human African trypanosomiasis caused by the parasite Trypanosoma brucei gambiense . (medscape.com)
I returned to the field of parasitology in 2000 to join the research group of Debbie Smith at Imperial College London and from 2004 at the University of York, studying the cell biology of the protozoan parasites Leishmania major and Trypanosoma brucei . (keele.ac.uk)
and Trypanosoma brucei and exploiting this knowledge towards the development of new therapeutics. (keele.ac.uk)
Keele University Acorn PhD studentship (PI), ARF protein regulators as novel drug targets in Trypanosoma brucei . (keele.ac.uk)
Wild chimpanzees are infected by Trypanosoma brucei. (aaem.pl)
Before I joined microbiologist and parasitologist Kent Hill's laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles , graduate student Miguel Lopez and postdoctoral researcher Michael Oberholzer had discovered that the parasite Trypanosoma brucei engages in social behavior when placed on a surface. (drugdiscoverynews.com)
Identification of Positive Chemotaxis in the Protozoan Pathogen Trypanosoma brucei. (drugdiscoverynews.com)
The African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei gambiense is a parasite responsible for chronic Human African Trypanosomiasis, more commonly known as sleeping. (pasteur.fr)
African human trypanosomiasis is caused by the protozoan parasites Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense , transmitted through the bite of tsetse flies. (who.int)
Trypanosoma brucei is the causative agent of African sleeping sickness in humans and one of the causes of nagana in cattle. (nih.gov)
It is caused by 2 subspecies of the flagellate protozoan Trypanosoma brucei , which are transmitted to human hosts by bites of infected tsetse flies. (medscape.com)
Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (East African or Rhodesian African trypanosomiasis) transmitted by infected tsetse flies ( Glossina morsitans ). (medscape.com)
One such illness, African sleeping sickness, is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma brucei, transmitted by the tsetse fly, and is fatal if left untreated. (rockefeller.edu)
We have determined the X-ray structures of CYP51s from three protozoan parasites, Trypanosoma brucei (sleeping sickness) [3g1q, 3g9o, ] Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas disease) and Leishmania infantum (visceral leishmaniasis), in the ligand-free state and complexed with different ligands including clinical antifungal and experimental azoles, non-azole inhibitors and a substrate analog. (vanderbilt.edu)
Trypanosoma brucei is a Sub-Saharan African protozoan parasite that, when transmitted to the bloodstream of a mammal through the bite of a tsetse fly, causes fatal disease in humans and animals. (hmc.edu)
Sleeping sickness, caused by Trypanosoma brucei, is a deadly disease that affects some of the poorest countries in sub-Saharan Africa. (bl.uk)
This mechanism of transmission contrasts with that of the two subspecies of African trypanosomes that cause human disease, Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense , which are transmitted via the saliva of their vectors, and with the mechanism by which a nonpathogenic trypanosome found in the Americas, Trypanosoma rangeli , is transmitted to its mammalian hosts. (medscape.com)
For over 50 years it has been known that there are considerable differences in the severity and rate of progression of both Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and T. b. gambiense infection between individuals. (unboundmedicine.com)
AU - Sternberg,Jeremy M, AU - Maclean,Lorna, Y1 - 2010/07/21/ PY - 2010/7/29/entrez PY - 2010/7/29/pubmed PY - 2011/2/15/medline SP - 2007 EP - 15 JF - Parasitology JO - Parasitology VL - 137 IS - 14 N2 - For over 50 years it has been known that there are considerable differences in the severity and rate of progression of both Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and T. b. gambiense infection between individuals. (unboundmedicine.com)
Trypanosomatid parasitic protozoa such as Leishmania and Trypanosoma brucei make extensive use of this method of protein surface attachment. (gla.ac.uk)
Her graduate work in Dr. Philippe Bastin's Lab at Pasteur Institute Paris focused on studying flagellum assembly and function in the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei . (iu.edu)
2016). Trypanosoma brucei Co-opts NK Cells to Kill Splenic B2 B Cells . (umass.edu)
Under a magnification of 1000X, this Giemsa-stained light photomicrograph revealed the presence of Trypanosoma brucei parasites, which were found in a thin film blood smear. (cdc.gov)
Together, they have studied and published dozens of papers on the mechanics of mitochondrial DNA and RNA in Trypanosoma brucei, a single-celled, disease-causing parasite. (bu.edu)
This putative activity was addressed by focusing on a protein composed solely of MORN repeats - Trypanosoma brucei MORN1. (biorxiv.org)
High- and low-resolution structures of the MORN1 protein from Trypanosoma brucei and homologous proteins from the parasites Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium falciparum were obtained using a combination of macromolecular crystallography, small-angle X-ray scattering, and electron microscopy. (biorxiv.org)
The protozoan parasites Leishmania major and Trypanosoma brucei are causative agents of leishmaniasis and African trypanosomiasis, respectively. (biostatus.com)
This parasitic protozoan does not directly attack humans, but it belongs to the Trypanosomatida group - protozoans closely related to Trypanosoma brucei , which causes the deadly disease of sleeping sickness in humans and cattle. (avcr.cz)
In mice infected with Trypanosoma brucei, splenic and peritoneal macrophages release substantial amounts of nitric oxide (NO). The production of NO by activated macrophages has been reported to be a nonspecific immune-effector mechansism against several parasites, and in this work we investigate the role of NO in killing T. brucei. (elsevierpure.com)
Mabbott, NA, Sutherland, IA & Sternberg, JM 1994, ' Trypanosoma brucei is protected from the cytostatic effects of nitric oxide under in vivo conditions ', Parasitology Research , vol. 80, no. 8, pp. 687-690. (elsevierpure.com)
Our group has been isolating and characterising molecular chaperones from Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of human and animal African trypanosomiasis as well as from Plasmodium falciparum, the causative agent of malaria. (ru.ac.za)
Specific land cover types and activities have been correlated with Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense distributions, indicating the importance of landscape for epidemiological risk. (biomedcentral.com)
Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense , the vector transmitted parasite subspecies which causes the fatal disease Rhodesian HAT, is reliant on the availability of suitable habitat and environmental conditions for the tsetse vector ( Glossina spp. (biomedcentral.com)
Two subspecies of Trypanosoma brucei cause disease: T. b. gambiense in West and Central Africa, and T. b. rhodesiense in East Africa. (who.int)
OBJECTIVES The study was to investigate the effects of Allium sativum extract on Trypanosoma brucei brucei parasites' morphometric parameters, parasitemia and the clinical outcome in white infected Albino laboratory rats in order to determine its trypanocidal effects. (bvsalud.org)
Human African sleeping sickness is an infection caused by the protozoa Trypanosoma brucei gambiense or Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense . (msdmanuals.com)
One form (caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense ) occurs in West and Central Africa. (msdmanuals.com)
The other form (caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense ) occurs in East Africa. (msdmanuals.com)
Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense are usually transmitted to people when an infected tsetse fly bites them and injects the protozoa into the skin. (msdmanuals.com)
African Trypanosomiasis Human African trypanosomiasis is infection with protozoa of the species Trypanosoma brucei , transmitted by the bite of a tsetse fly. (msdmanuals.com)

The trypanosome parasite is t. (rockefeller.edu)
Another that we are actively pursuing is to first ask, what small molecules bind to trypanosome bromodomains in a test tube, apart from intact parasites? (hmc.edu)
Histological sections of dorsal skin from uninfected and infected Balb/C mice stained with trypanosome-specific anti-ISG65 antibody (brown), counterstained with Gill's Haematoxylin stain (blue) at 12 days and 24 days post-inoculation with T.b. brucei strain STIB247. (elifesciences.org)
Trypanosome-specific anti-ISG65 antibody reveals the presence of extravascular parasites (brown) and the slides were counterstained with Gill's Haematoxylin stain (blue) to reveal host skin structure. (elifesciences.org)
Camel Antibodies Used to Fight TrypanosomesFigure 1Belgian scientists say that small antibodies taken from the dromedary may prove useful in treating tropical parasites such as the African trypanosome, which causes sleeping sickness. (the-scientist.com)
Belgian scientists say that small antibodies taken from the dromedary may prove useful in treating tropical parasites such as the African trypanosome, which causes sleeping sickness. (the-scientist.com)
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, is caused by trypanosome parasites that are transmitted by tsetse flies. (who.int)

Choice of therapy depends on the infecting subspecies of the parasite and on the disease stage. (cdc.gov)

Pour ce faire, des échantillons de sang y ont été prélevés sur 307 porcs, 264 chèvres, 267 moutons et 37 chiens, et analysés à l'aide de tests parasitologique (QBC), immunologique (CATT LiTat 1.3) et moléculaires (PCR à T. brucei s.l. et à T. b. gambiense groupe 1). (parasite-journal.org)
Skin invasion by T.b. brucei strain TREU927 and T.b. gambiense strain PA. (elifesciences.org)
Histological sections of dorsal skin from a mouse infected with T.b. brucei strain TREU927 at 20x magnification and two mice infected with T.b. gambiense strain PA at 40x magnification 10-days post-inoculation. (elifesciences.org)

Slides stained with Giemsa can be used, but it is easiest to find the parasite by microscopic examination of fresh wet preparations, because the trypanosomes are motile. (cdc.gov)
Le QBC a permis de mettre en évidence des trypanosomes chez 3,88 % d'animaux échantillonnés alors que 22,17 % étaient séropositifs avec le test CATT LiTat 1.3. (parasite-journal.org)
Un total de 174 (19,88 %) animaux sur 875 a été trouvé porteur d'ADN de trypanosomes du complexe T. brucei s.l. (parasite-journal.org)
Salivarian trypanosomes are extracellular parasites causing anthroponotic and zoonotic infections. (mdpi.com)
Addition of bloodstream trypanosomes to peritoneal macrophages activated in vitro resulted in an NO-dependent inhibition of parasite growth. (elsevierpure.com)

Here, using fluorescence microscopy and cell lines expressing endogenously tagged proteins, we mapped the subcellular localization of 89% of the T. brucei proteome, a resource we call TrypTag. (ox.ac.uk)
One remarkable feature of T. brucei is the efficient transport of proteins. (tu-darmstadt.de)
In that work, we showed that small molecules that inhibited bromodomain proteins could push parasites that started out in the mammalian stage of the life cycle toward a form of the parasite usually found only in insects," says Schulz. (hmc.edu)
The perceived importance of GPI-anchored proteins makes the GPI biosynthetic pathway a good target for anti-parasite chemotherapy. (gla.ac.uk)
We performed MS label-free quantification to determine which proteins are enriched in an active replication fork in T. brucei (Chapter 3). (umass.edu)
Certain molecular chaperone proteins have been identified as essential to the survival of both parasites. (ru.ac.za)

Herein, we report the synthesis and evaluation of an expanded set of orlistat-like compounds, some of which showed highly potent trypanocidal activities in both the bloodstream form (BSF) and the procyclic form (PCF) of T. brucei. (lincoln.ac.uk)
Furthermore, in the bloodstream form of T. brucei, resistance was relatively easy to select for nifurtimox, with no concurrent loss of virulence and at clinically relevant levels. (bl.uk)

Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is caused by infection with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi . (medscape.com)
Yet research into the factors, whether parasite or host, which control virulence in Human African trypanosomiasis is in its infancy. (unboundmedicine.com)
Sternberg JM, Maclean L. A spectrum of disease in human African trypanosomiasis: the host and parasite genetics of virulence. (unboundmedicine.com)
TY - JOUR T1 - A spectrum of disease in human African trypanosomiasis: the host and parasite genetics of virulence. (unboundmedicine.com)

Epimastigotes are an extracellular and noninfective form of the parasite found in the midgut of insect vectors, where they multiply by binary fission. (medscape.com)
The trypomastigote is the infective flagellated form of the parasite found in the blood of the mammalian hosts (blood trypomastigote) and in the hindgut of vectors (metacyclic trypomastigote). (medscape.com)

T. brucei rhodesiense mainly affects livestock and wildlife but sporadically spills over into humans, causing an acute disease that progresses quickly. (cdc.gov)
Harvey Mudd College biology professor Danae Schulz studies a parasite that causes fatal disease in humans and animals. (hmc.edu)
Infected insects take blood meals from humans and their domestic animals and deposit parasite-laden feces. (medscape.com)
HAT transmission requires the interaction of humans, tsetse flies and parasite reservoirs (humans, and domestic and wild animals). (who.int)

TrypTag is a transformative resource, important for hypothesis generation for both eukaryotic evolutionary molecular cell biology and fundamental parasite cell biology. (ox.ac.uk)
Dried blood spot samples retrieved from 1 case-patient in October 2022 were sent to the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, where the parasite was confirmed by molecular analysis as T. brucei rhodesiense . (cdc.gov)
Molecular techniques may enable detection of parasites even in tiny amounts of blood-containing faeces. (aaem.pl)
Very little is known about the molecular mechanism of VSG switching in T. brucei. (nih.gov)
The molecular replicative machinery utilized by the Plasmodium parasite, as well as whether the parasite uses local and global checkpoints to control the timing of DNA replication and nuclear division, remain a major gap of knowledge in the biology of the parasite. (iu.edu)
Molecular chaperones play a wide range of roles in the cell and they are required to assist both parasites as they move from a cold blooded insect vector to a warm blooded mammalian host. (ru.ac.za)

The blood parasitaemia of T.b. brucei strain STIB247 (red) and the semi-quantitative score of extravascular parasites in the skin (blue) are shown over a 36-day time-course following infection in Balb/C mice. (elifesciences.org)
In addition, the data presented demonstrates the plant extract had the potential to improve the red and white blood cell indices reducing parasitaemia following T. b. brucei infection. (bvsalud.org)

Subsequent in situ parasite based proteome profiling was carried out to elucidate potential cellular targets of the drug in both forms. (lincoln.ac.uk)

The Malaria Parasite Cyclin H Homolog PfCyc1 Is Required for Efficient Cytokinesis in Blood-Stage Plasmodium falciparum . (iu.edu)

More worryingly, nifurtimox resistance led to a decreased sensitivity of these parasites to other nitroaromatic compounds, including a high level of cross-resistance to fexinidazole. (bl.uk)

Parasite Immunology , 38 , 735-743. (umass.edu)

stool testing for parasite antigens or DNA and microscopic examination of stool for cysts or organisms are necessary. (msdmanuals.com)

Overview of Parasitic Infections A parasite is an organism that lives on or inside another organism (the host) and benefits (for example, by getting nutrients) from the host at the host's expense. (msdmanuals.com)
The effect of age, sex and starvation of Glossina morsitans morsitans on the transmission of Trypanosoma congolense and T. congolense/T.B. brucei mixed infections / by Mwangelwa Inambao Mwangelwa. (who.int)

Multiple pathogenic parasites and nonpathogenic commensal organisms may be present in the intestine at the same time. (msdmanuals.com)

As with other parasites that infect both mammalian and insect hosts, the life cycle of T cruzi is complex (see image below). (medscape.com)

This suggests that GPI8 is located in the ER of T. brucei, the same subcellular location that has been identified in yeast. (gla.ac.uk)

An essential malaria protein defines the architecture of blood-stage and transmission-stage parasites. (iu.edu)
Antibodies to PfSEA-1 block parasite egress from RBCs and protect against malaria infection. (iu.edu)
Malaria is caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected female mosquitoes. (who.int)
P. falciparum is the most deadly malaria parasite and the most prevalent in Africa, where malaria cases and deaths are heavily concentrated. (who.int)
Malaria parasites and other haemosporidia / P. C. C. Garnham. (who.int)

A protein of 38-40 kDa, however, was detected in cell lysates of T. brucei with the antirecombinant GPI8 antibodies. (gla.ac.uk)
This antiserum gave a similar immunofluorescence pattern in T. brucei to those of an epitope-tagged ribosomal protein, QM. (gla.ac.uk)

I was awarded a PhD in 1997 following research at Bangor University on a vaccine candidate for the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni . (keele.ac.uk)

We found that CyGEL was suitable for complete immobilisation of procyclic stage L. major and T. brucei for 90 minutes without affecting cell viability. (biostatus.com)

They also play an important role during differentiation of the parasites during different stages of development. (ru.ac.za)

At present the biology of the parasite is well studied and a number of technologies are now available which can aid in the identifiation of potential drug targets. (bvsalud.org)

This was therapeutically interesting, since parasites adapted for the insect stage would be expected to not survive well in a mammal. (hmc.edu)
In other words, if a mammal infected with the parasites were treated with a drug that made the parasites adapted to be in the insect stage, the parasites would be maladapted for survival in the mammal, offering an opportunity for the immune system to clear the infection. (hmc.edu)
Recently, Schulz and her undergraduate researchers have been trying to determine if there were other small molecules already on the market (clinically approved) that could do what the bromodomain inhibitor did, i.e., push the mammalian form of the parasite forward to the insect form. (hmc.edu)
The epimastigote form of Trypanosoma cruzi is the multiplying stage of the parasite that grows in the gut of the insect vector and also in cell-free culture medium as shown here. (medscape.com)

Typically, we performed our social behavior experiments in sterile conditions to prevent other microbes from landing and feasting on the nutrient-rich parasite plates, but one day, Lopez and another graduate student, Edwin Saada, noticed a small bacterial colony growing on the same plate as the social parasites. (drugdiscoverynews.com)

Asking rhetorical questions such as "Has anyone ever heard of an aluminium-based life form" and "Do we think it is beneficial," Dr. Zalewski quite effectively drives home the implication that this is a true act of bio-terrorism, to contaminate the vaccines with a horrific synthetic parasite which, he reminds us, is meant to self-replicate, preserve its life and progeny, and essentially proliferate inside the human bloodstream and body. (republicbroadcasting.org)
T. brucei are more like bacteria when they form biofilms or swarm across surfaces. (drugdiscoverynews.com)
T. brucei move together in groups to form long thin lines of parasites. (drugdiscoverynews.com)

Parasites can also be found in fluid expressed in trypanosomal chancres and in lymph node aspirates. (cdc.gov)
In keeping with the role of TbNTR in nitrodrug activation, loss of an NTR gene copy in T. brucei was found to be one, but not the only, mechanism that may lead to nitrodrug resistance. (bl.uk)

brucei infection, five mice were culled (three infected, two control) and skin sections stained with parasite-specific anti-IGS65 antibody. (elifesciences.org)

Blastocrithidia nonstop , a parasite of heteropteran insects, was recently discovered by researchers in a fairly common type of shield bug, Eysarcoris aeneus , captured in a meadow of a nature reserve in the Liberec region of the Czech Republic. (avcr.cz)

This protozoan parasite evades the host immune system by antigenic variation, a periodic switching of its variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) coat. (nih.gov)

In centrifuged blood, the parasite sediments just above the white blood cells, and examination of buffy coat will increase sensitivity. (cdc.gov)
Parasite densities in the blood and in the extravascular tissue of the skin over a time-course. (elifesciences.org)
Dynamics of parasite distribution in the extravascular tissue of the skin and in the blood during a representative course of infection following natural transmission. (elifesciences.org)
This effect was totally abrogated when dilutions of whole blood were included in the cultures, suggesting that bloodstream parasites such as T. brucei are not susceptible to NO-mediated killing in vivo. (elsevierpure.com)

In mice, peritoneal M2 macrophages, elicited during infection with the parasites Taenia crassiceps or Tryponosoma brucei brucei, expressed increased CD200R levels compared to those derived from uninfected mice. (uni-muenchen.de)

A global analysis of DNA replication initiation in T. brucei showed that TbORC1 (subunit of the origin recognition complex, ORC) binding sites are located at the boundaries of transcription units. (umass.edu)
Although recent studies in T. brucei indicate functional links among DNA replication and transcription, the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. (umass.edu)

Naudzius helped to engineer the parasite strain that was used for the screen, and Savanah Diaz '22 and Theodore Wismar '22 conducted experiments to show that some of the tested drugs affected the cell cycle of the parasites. (hmc.edu)
A total of seven mice were infected by the single infective bite of an individual G.m. morsitans on the belly with the T.b. brucei AnTat1.1E AMLuc/tdTomato strain. (elifesciences.org)

Incubation of a microsomal preparation from L. donovani or L. major parasites with synthetic substrates and UDP-[6-H-3]Gal resulted in incorporation of radiolabel into these exogenous acceptors. (dundee.ac.uk)

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