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Trypanosomiasis

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Protozoa
  • Caused by
      1. Trypanosoma brucei
          • That causes African sleeping sickness,
          • A meningoencephalitis
          • Transmitted by the tsetse fly;
      1. Trypanosoma rhodesiense
          • That causes a more severe meningoencephalitis;
      1. Trypanosoma gambiense that is more chronic;
      1. Trypanosoma cruzi
          • Causes Chagas disease in South America,
          • Transmitted by the reduviid bug
          • Causes cardiomyopathy, megacolon, and congenital CNS lesions in children.