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Protozoan Infections
African Trypanosomiasis
African trypanosomiasis is a disease that is caused by infection with flagellates of the species Trypanosoma rhodesiense or Trypanosoma gambiense. It is estimated that between 300,000 and 500,000 people have African trypanosomiasis. In human these parasites reside in the blood stream, then in the central nervous system in later stages of the infection, and this causes African sleeping sickness. This parasite is transmitted from host to host by the bite of a testse fly.
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