Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of flagellate infusorians, typical of the family Trypanosomatidæ. T. sanguinis, also called Undulina ranarum, occurs in the blood of amphibians.

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Examples

  • The sleepingsickness of Africa, due to an animal parasite, the trypanosoma, is transmitted to man by the bite of a fly.

    Some of the Triumphs of Modern Medicine 1910

  • The disease develops more quickly over a few weeks or months in people infected with trypanosoma rhodesiense.

    New Treatment for Sleeping Sickness 2010

  • The disease is caused by the trypanosoma parasite.

    New Treatment for Sleeping Sickness 2010

  • The disease develops more quickly over a few weeks or months in people infected with trypanosoma rhodesiense.

    New Treatment for Sleeping Sickness 2010

  • The disease is caused by the trypanosoma parasite.

    New Treatment for Sleeping Sickness 2010

  • The peculiar relapsing type of fever, the great reduction in the number of red blood cells, and the absence of eosinophila are sufficient to differentiate it from the anemias produced by internal parasites, while it may be readily distinguished from surra by the nonsusceptibility of cattle and by the great ease with which the trypanosoma may be found in the latter affection.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • Xenomycins, a family of compounds for both topical and systemic anti-infective treatment that have shown efficacy in-vitro and in-vivo with multiple pathogens, such as malaria, fungi, trypanosoma, and others.

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  • There are two types of this trypanosoma, Trypanosoma brucei - this is a known as a virus that is transported by either a fly, it injects the virus through your blood stream.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Some trypanosoma can modify the hoists surface membrane; it will spread to the hoist nervous system.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • The trypanosoma will infect many organisms like man, animals, humans and other organism's people from Africa call it the

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

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