Trypanosoma suis
| Trypanosoma suis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukarya |
| Kingdom: | Protista |
| Phylum: | Euglenozoa |
| Class: | Kinetoplastida |
| Order: | Trypanosomatida |
| Genus: | Trypanosoma |
| Species: | T. suis |
| Binomial name | |
| Trypanosoma suis Ochmann, 1905 |
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Trypanosoma suis is a protozoan trypanosome in the genus Trypanosoma that causes one form of the surra disease in animals. It infects pigs. It does not infect humans.[1]
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[edit] Discovery
Trypanosoma suis was first encountered and described by Ochmann in 1905.[1] He found the parasite in a herd of sick pig in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. Hence the name as the word suis means pig. Eventually it was lost in consecutive renaming of the parasite until the 1950's.
[edit] Rediscovered
In the 1950s Trypanosoma suis is rediscovered in Burundi by two Belgian researchers.[2]
Trypanosomas suis remains the most rare member of the Salivarian trypanosomes. The only isolated specimen known of this species is kept at the Kenya Trypanosomiasis Research Institute, Nairobi.[3]
The parasite is known to be transmitted by the Tsetse fly.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Molecular Parasitology Group
- ^ Wild Pigs as Hosts of Glossina vanhoofi Henrard and Trypanosoma suis Ochmann in the Central African Forest
- ^ CJO - Abstract - Unravelling the phylogenetic relationships of African trypanosomes of suids
- ^ Tsetse biology, systematics and distribution, techniques
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