trypanosomiasis
n.
infection caused by a type of protozoan parasite of the genus Trypanosoma that causes sleeping sickness and other diseases in man and animals (usually transmitted by insects)
Trypanosomiasis
Trypanosomiasis is the name of the several diseases in
vertebrates caused by
parasitic protozoan trypanosomes of the genus
Trypanosoma. The disease may also be called trypanosomosis but there is no greater authority for either; both terms are widely used in publication. More than 66 million women, men, and children in 36 countries of sub- Saharan
Africa suffer from human African trypanosomiasis. There are two forms of African
sleeping sickness, caused by two related parasites: Trypanosoma brucei gambienseTrypanosoma brucei rhodesiense
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Trypanosomiasis
African trypanosomiasis
noun
African disease, spread by the tsetse fly, where trypanosomes infest the blood
trypanosomiasis