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Wild chimpanzees are infected by Trypanosoma brucei

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2015
Although wild chimpanzees and other African great apes live in regions endemic for African sleeping sickness, very little is known about their trypanosome infections, mainly due to major difficulties in obtaining their blood samples.
Milan Jirků, Jan Votýpka, Klára J. Petrželková, Kateřina Jirků-Pomajbíková, Eva Kriegová, Roman Vodička, Felix Lankester, Siv Aina J. Leendertz, Roman M. Wittig, Christophe Boesch, David Modrý, Francisco J. Ayala, Fabian H. Leendertz, Julius Lukeš   +13 more
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The burden of human African trypanosomiasis.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2008
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT, or sleeping sickness) is a protozoan parasitic infection caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense or Trypanosoma brucei gambiense. These are neglected tropical diseases, and T.b. rhodesiense HAT is a zoonosis.
Eric M Fèvre, Beatrix V Wissmann, Susan C Welburn, Pascal Lutumba   +3 more
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A pilot study demonstrating the identification of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and T. b. rhodesiense in vectors using a multiplexed high-resolution melt qPCR.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020
Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) is a potentially fatal parasitic infection caused by the trypanosome sub-species Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and T. b. rhodesiense transmitted by tsetse flies. Currently, global HAT case numbers are reaching less than
Gala Garrod, Emily R Adams, Jessica K Lingley, Isabel Saldanha, Stephen J Torr, Lucas J Cunningham   +5 more
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Cure of Trypanosoma brucei brucei and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense infections in mice with an irreversible inhibitor of S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase [PDF]

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 1990
A structural analog, 5'-([(Z)-4-amino-2-butenyl]methylamino)-5'-deoxy adenosine (MDL 73811), of decarboxy S-adenosyl-L-methionine, the product of the reaction catalyzed by S-adenosyl-L-methionine (AdoMet) decarboxylase (DC), was found to inhibit Trypanosoma brucei brucei AdoMet DC.
A J, Bitonti, T L, Byers, T L, Bush, P J, Casara, C J, Bacchi, A B, Clarkson, P P, McCann, A, Sjoerdsma   +7 more
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Comparative analysis of cerebrospinal fluid from the meningo-encephalitic stage of T. b. gambiense and rhodesiense sleeping sickness patients using TMT quantitative proteomics

Data in Brief, 2015
The quantitative proteomics data here reported are part of a research article entitled “Increased acute immune response during the meningo-encephalitic stage of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense sleeping sickness compared to Trypanosoma brucei gambiense ...
Natalia Tiberti, Jean-Charles Sanchez
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A panel of Trypanosoma brucei strains tagged with blue and red-shifted luciferases for bioluminescent imaging in murine infection models. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2014
BACKGROUND:Genetic engineering with luciferase reporter genes allows monitoring Trypanosoma brucei (T.b.) infections in mice by in vivo bioluminescence imaging (BLI). Until recently, luminescent T.b.
Nick Van Reet, Hélène Van de Vyver, Patient Pati Pyana, Anne Marie Van der Linden, Philippe Büscher   +4 more
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Multiple evolutionary origins of Trypanosoma evansi in Kenya.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017
Trypanosoma evansi is the parasite causing surra, a form of trypanosomiasis in camels and other livestock, and a serious economic burden in Kenya and many other parts of the world.
Christine M Kamidi, Norah P Saarman, Kirstin Dion, Paul O Mireji, Collins Ouma, Grace Murilla, Serap Aksoy, Achim Schnaufer, Adalgisa Caccone   +8 more
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Efficient Oxidative Dearomatisations of Substituted Phenols Using Hypervalent Iodine (III) Reagents and Antiprotozoal Evaluation of the Resulting Cyclohexadienones against T. b. rhodesiense and P. falciparum Strain NF54

Molecules, 2022
Quinones and quinols are secondary metabolites of higher plants that are associated with many biological activities. The oxidative dearomatization of phenols induced by hypervalent iodine(III) reagents has proven to be a very useful synthetic approach ...
Nina Scheiber, Gregor Blaser, Eva-Maria Pferschy-Wenzig, Marcel Kaiser, Pascal Mäser, Armin Presser   +5 more
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Identification of compounds with anti-proliferative activity against Trypanosoma brucei brucei strain 427 by a whole cell viability based HTS campaign.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012
Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) is caused by two trypanosome sub-species, Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and Trypanosoma brucei gambiense. Drugs available for the treatment of HAT have significant issues related to difficult administration regimes ...
Melissa L Sykes, Jonathan B Baell, Marcel Kaiser, Eric Chatelain, Sarah R Moawad, Danny Ganame, Jean-Robert Ioset, Vicky M Avery   +7 more
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Cathepsin-L can resist lysis by human serum in Trypanosoma brucei brucei.

PLoS Pathogens, 2014
Closely related African trypanosomes cause lethal diseases but display distinct host ranges. Specifically, Trypanosoma brucei brucei causes nagana in livestock but fails to infect humans, while Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei ...
Sam Alsford, Rachel B Currier, José Afonso Guerra-Assunção, Taane G Clark, David Horn   +4 more
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