Trypanosoma suis

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Trypanosoma suis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Euglenozoa
Class: Kinetoplastea
Order: Trypanosomatida
Genus: Trypanosoma
Species: T. suis

Trypanosoma suis is a protozoan trypanosome in the genus trypanosoma that causes one form of the surra disease in animals.

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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 unil the 1950's.

[edit] Rediscovered

In the 1950s Trypanosoma suis is rediscovered in Burundi by 2 Belgian Researchers. [2].

Trypanosomas suis remains the moste 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

  1. ^ http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/molpar/suis.htm
  2. ^ http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v197/n4872/abs/1971126a0.html
  3. ^ http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=80584
  4. ^ http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/p5178e/P5178E07.htm

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