Trypanosoma

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Trypanosoma are of the class kinetoplastida, a monophyletic group of unicellular parasitic protozoa. The name is derived from the Greek trypaô (boring) and soma (body) because of their corkscrew-like motion. Trypanosomes infect a variety of hosts and cause various disease, including the fatal disease sleeping sickness in humans.

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organism, unicellular, trypanosoma, monophyletic, parasitic protozoa

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Source

The April Century Magazine (London, England: MacMillan and Co. LTD, 1904)

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