Confining Trypanosoma brucei in emulsion droplets reveals population variabilities in division rates and improves in vitro cultivation

Abstract Trypanosome parasites are infecting mammals in Sub-Saharan Africa and are transmitted between hosts through bites of the tsetse fly. The transmission from the insect vector to the mammal host causes a number of metabolic and physiological changes. A fraction of the population continuously a...

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Main Authors: Simone H. Oldenburg, Lionel Buisson, Thomas Beneyton, Deniz Pekin, Magali Thonnus, Frédéric Bringaud, Loïc Rivière, Jean-Christophe Baret
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-09-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97356-7