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<br>The topic of my paper is <i>Trypanosoma brucei</i>, which is most commonly known for causing the feared African sleeping sickness. <i>Trypanosoma brucei</i> is a parasitic kinetoplastid carried by insects (most notably the tsetse fly) that use humans and other animals as vectors. What is your research question? What experiments have addressed your question?  Applications for medicine and/or environment?<br>
<br>The topic of my paper is <i>Trypanosoma brucei gambiense</i> (or <i>T.b. gambiense</i>), a subspecies of the genus <i>Trypanosoma</i>, in the subgenus <i>trypanozoon</i>. <i>T.b. gambiense</i> is a parasitic kinetoplastid carried by <i>Glossina</i>, more commonly known as the Tsetse fly, that feed on the blood of mammalian hosts.
<br>This microbe is most notable for causing the feared African trypanosomiasis.Contraction of this microbe causes  What is your research question? What experiments have addressed your question?  Applications for medicine and/or environment?<br>
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Sample citations: <ref name=aa>[http://www.plosbiology.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000005&representation=PDF Hodgkin, J. and Partridge, F.A. "<i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> meets microsporidia: the nematode killers from Paris." 2008. PLoS Biology 6:2634-2637.]</ref>
<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3847443/ Bartlett et al.: Oncolytic viruses as therapeutic cancer vaccines. Molecular Cancer 2013 12:103.]</ref>
<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3847443/ Bartlett et al.: Oncolytic viruses as therapeutic cancer vaccines. Molecular Cancer 2013 12:103.]</ref>

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Trypanosoma forming in a blood smear from a patient with African trypanosomiasis. By Dr. Myron G. Schultz, then at the [https://phil.cdc.gov/details.aspx?pid=613


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The topic of my paper is Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (or T.b. gambiense), a subspecies of the genus Trypanosoma, in the subgenus trypanozoon. T.b. gambiense is a parasitic kinetoplastid carried by Glossina, more commonly known as the Tsetse fly, that feed on the blood of mammalian hosts.
This microbe is most notable for causing the feared African trypanosomiasis.Contraction of this microbe causes What is your research question? What experiments have addressed your question? Applications for medicine and/or environment?
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Authored for BIOL 238 Microbiology, taught by Joan Slonczewski, 2018, Kenyon College.