| Trypanosomes |
Photomicrograph of Trypanosoma cruzi parasites (Chagas disease pathogen). | | Scientific classification | | | | Genera | | Blastocrithidia
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Wallaceina Photomicrograph of Trypanosoma cruzi parasites (Chagas disease pathogen). ...
Binomial name Trypanosoma cruzi Chagas, 1909 Chagas disease (also called American trypanosomiasis) is a mammalian disease occurring only in the Americas. ...
A pathogen (literally birth of pain from the Greek παθογένεια) is a biological agent that can cause disease to its host. ...
Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ...
Typical phyla Rhodophyta (red algae) Chromista Heterokontophyta (heterokonts) Haptophyta Cryptophyta (cryptomonads) Alveolates Pyrrhophyta (dinoflagellates) Apicomplexa Ciliophora (ciliates) Excavates Euglenozoa Percolozoa Metamonada Rhizaria Radiolaria Foraminifera Cercozoa Amoebozoa Choanozoa Many others; classification varies The Kingdom Protista or Protoctista is one of the commonly recognized biological kingdoms, including all the eukaryotes except for...
Classes Euglenoidea Kinetoplastea Diplonemea Postgaardea The Euglenozoa are a large group of flagellate protozoa, dominated by the euglenids and kinetoplastids. ...
Families Bodonidae Trypanosomatidae The kinetoplastids are a group of flagellate protozoa, including a number of parasites responsible for serious diseases in humans and other animals, as well as various forms found in soil and aquatic environments. ...
Species see text Leishmania is a genus of parasitic flagellate, belonging to the trypanosomes and responsible for diseases such as leishmaniasis. ...
Genera Blastocrithidia Crithidia Endotrypanum Herpetomonas Leishmania Leptomonas Phytomonas Trypanosoma Wallaceina The trypanosomes are a group of kinetoplastids that only have a single emergent flagellum. ...
| The trypanosomes are a group of kinetoplastid protozoa, which are exclusively parasitic. They are distinguished by having only a single emergent flagellum. Trypanosomes alternate between insect and vertebrate hosts, and are responsible for some human diseases, including sleeping sickness (by Trypanosoma brucei), Chagas disease (by Trypanosoma cruzi), and leishmaniasis (by Leishmania). Families Bodonidae Trypanosomatidae The kinetoplastids are a group of flagellate protozoa, including a number of parasites responsible for serious diseases in humans and other animals, as well as various forms found in soil and aquatic environments. ...
A parasite is an organism that lives in or on the living tissue of a host organism at the expense of it. ...
A flagellum (plural, flagella) is a whip-like organelle that many unicellular organisms, and some multicellular ones, use to move about. ...
Sleeping sickness or African trypanosomiasis is a parasitic disease in humans. ...
Binomial name Trypanosoma cruzi Chagas, 1909 Chagas disease (also called American trypanosomiasis) is a mammalian disease occurring only in the Americas. ...
Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by parasites that belong to the genus Leishmania and is transmitted by the bite of certain species of sand fly. ...
Trypanosomes take on several different forms during their life-cycle. In the trypanosome stage, the flagellum runs forwards along the side of the cell, connected to it by an undulating membrane. This occurs in the vertebrate host. In the insect host, the flagellum may emerge at the anterior or posterior, or be absent. Different species may lack some of these stages.
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