Social motility of African trypanosomes is a property of a distinct life-cycle stage that occurs early in tsetse fly transmission.
The protozoan pathogen Trypanosoma brucei is transmitted between mammals by tsetse flies. The first compartment colonised by trypanosomes after a blood meal is the fly midgut lumen. Trypanosomes present in the lumen-designated as early procyclic forms-express the stage-specific surface glycoproteins...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-10-01
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Series: | PLoS Pathogens |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4214818?pdf=render |