- Trypanosoma suis
Taxobox
color = khaki
name = "Trypanosoma suis"
regnum =Protist a
phylum =Euglenozoa
classis = Kinetoplastea
ordo = Trypanosomatida
genus = "Trypanosoma "
species = "T. suis""Trypanosoma suis" is a protozoan
trypanosome in the genustrypanosoma that causes one form of thesurra disease in animals. It infectspig s. It does not infecthuman s. [http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/molpar/suis.htm Molecular Parasitology Group ] ]Discovery
Trypanosoma suis was first encountered and described by Ochmann in 1905. He found the
parasite in a herd of sick pig inDar-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.Rediscovered
In the 1950s "Trypanosoma suis" is rediscovered in
Burundi by two Belgian researchers. [ [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v197/n4872/abs/1971126a0.html Wild Pigs as Hosts of Glossina vanhoofi Henrard and Trypanosoma suis Ochmann in the Central African Forest ] ]"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 . [ [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=80584 CJO - Abstract - Unravelling the phylogenetic relationships of African trypanosomes of suids ] ]The parasite is known to be transmitted by the
Tsetse fly . [ [http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/p5178e/P5178E07.htm Tsetse biology, systematics and distribution, techniques ] ]References
External links
* [http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/molpar Molecular Parasitology Group]
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