Impact of microscopic motility on the swimming behavior of parasites: straighter trypanosomes are more directional.

Microorganisms, particularly parasites, have developed sophisticated swimming mechanisms to cope with a varied range of environments. African Trypanosomes, causative agents of fatal illness in humans and animals, use an insect vector (the Tsetse fly) to infect mammals, involving many developmental c...

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Main Authors: Sravanti Uppaluri, Jan Nagler, Eric Stellamanns, Niko Heddergott, Stephan Herminghaus, Markus Engstler, Thomas Pfohl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-06-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3116898?pdf=render