Definitions
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- adjective
Bruce (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Bruce's ..."
Etymologies
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Examples
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He infected mice and rabbits with Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite responsible for the dreaded sleeping sickness, then injected the animals with chemical derivatives to determine if any of them could halt the infection.
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He infected mice and rabbits with Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite responsible for the dreaded sleeping sickness, then injected the animals with chemical derivatives to determine if any of them could halt the infection.
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The expression sites for variant surface glycoproteins of Trypanosoma brucei.
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Bottom left: Another single-celled parasite, Trypanosoma brucei, is the cause of sleeping sickness.
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In an otherwise sober scientific paper, I came across this sentence: “Trypanosoma brucei has many enchanting features that have made this parasite the darling of experimental biologists.”
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Sleeping sickness: Disease caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma brucei, and transmitted by the tsetse fly.
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Prologue: A Vein Is a River xiv “Trypanosoma brucei has many enchanting features …”: Borst et al., 1997, p.
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Chagas disease is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, a species of trypanosomes related to Trypanosoma brucei, the cause of sleeping sickness.
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In an otherwise sober scientific paper, I came across this sentence: “Trypanosoma brucei has many enchanting features that have made this parasite the darling of experimental biologists.”
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Cause sleeping sickness (T. brucei), Chagas disease (T. cruzi), and other diseases.
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