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Camel Antibodies Used to Fight Trypanosomes
; ...useful in treating tropical parasites such as the African trypanosome, which causes sleeping sickness. Penetrating the dense, variable-specif...is no shortage of unique targets for really good drugs in trypanosomes, just a shortage of resources and commitment to getting some...
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Conenose bugs have painful bite
; ...in my house and am worried about the trypanosome it can spread in its bite. What should...in use. Some species are black. The trypanosome you mentioned is Trypanosoma cruzi...north. Although our species do carry the trypanosome, they don't transmit it to humans. Still...
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The tsetsefly must die
; ...die. The fly is the carrier of the single cell parasite, trypanosome, which attacks the blood and nervous system of its victims...vaccine for humans or cattle because once in the bloodstream, trypanosomes are able to change the outer protein coat they wear into...
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African Parasite Makes Component of Fat Differently From All Other Organisms; Johns Hopkins Researchers Shed Light on Culprit Behind 'Sleeping Sickness'.
; ...sleeping sickness. The single-celled trypanosome that causes African sleeping sickness...fatty acid-making pathway by hunting the trypanosome genome for stretches of DNA known to...Stephens, knocked out a single gene in the trypanosome known to make fatty acids in other organisms...
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BELIEVING IN DNA
; ...portion of DNA extracted from a single- celled organism called trypanosome. If you have ever seen the mess a kitten can make of a ball...that loosen, snip, tie, disentangle, unwind. Look at that trypanosome tangle again. It's not just lying there. It's a pulsing...
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AFRICA: CAMPAIGN TO ERADICATE TSETSE FLY.(Brief Article)
; ...areas of their continent and greatly increase food production. The biting tsetse fly transmits a potentially fatal parasite, trypanosome, which attacks the blood and nervous system of its victims. Approximately 60 million people are at risk from sleeping sickness...
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Tackling sleeping sickness from within.(genetically engineered bacteria may rid tsetse fly of disease-causing bacteria)(Brief Article)
; ...insect can transmit parasites called trypanosomes into humans. The parasites cause sleeping...nervous system and can lead to death. Trypanosomes aren't the only guests residing inside...bacteria by adding genes that encode trypanosome- destroying compounds. If researchers...
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Bacterium Inside Fly Could Be Key to a Cure
; ...sickness is caused by a parasite called a trypanosome and is transmitted by the bite of the...leaves people more susceptible to the trypanosome parasite, have led to a rise in sleeping...sickness vaccine -- in part because the trypanosome can continuously change its outer coat...
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Angola Starts Meeting on Fighting Epidemic Diseases
; ...the spread of the principal epidemics based on an overall appraisal on the magnitude of the diseases in Angola. Malaria, tuberculosis, trypanosome (sleeping disease), lepra and AIDS are main diseases spreading in the southwest African country.
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Hope for the weary Why a small suburban drug company devotes all its energy finding a cure for African sleeping sickness.(Business)
; ...of sub-Saharan Africa, the blood-sucking tsetse fly can carry a rather ghastly parasite. If an infected fly bites you, the trypanosome parasite will multiply in your blood and lymph systems, causing waves of fever and headache. Eventually the protozoa will...
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