The pathogenesis of African trypanosomiasis

E Pays, M Radwanska, S Magez - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
African trypanosomes are bloodstream protozoan parasites that infect mammals including
humans, where they cause slee** sickness. Long-lasting infection is required to favor …

Pathogenicity and virulence of African trypanosomes: From laboratory models to clinically relevant hosts

LJ Morrison, PC Steketee, MD Tettey, KR Matthews - Virulence, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
African trypanosomes are vector-borne protozoa, which cause significant human and animal
disease across sub-Saharan Africa, and animal disease across Asia and South America. In …

Single cell and spatial transcriptomic analyses reveal microglia-plasma cell crosstalk in the brain during Trypanosoma brucei infection

JF Quintana, P Chandrasegaran, MC Sinton… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Human African trypanosomiasis, or slee** sickness, is caused by the protozoan parasite
Trypanosoma brucei and induces profound reactivity of glial cells and neuroinflammation …

Life stage–specific poly(A) site selection regulated by Trypanosoma brucei DRBD18

JE Bard, BL Tylec, AP Dubey, NA Lamb… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
The kinetoplastid parasite, Trypanosoma brucei, undergoes a complex life cycle entailing
slender and stumpy bloodstream forms in mammals and procyclic and metacyclic forms …

Drug resistance in Leishmania: does it really matter?

MA Domagalska, MP Barrett, JC Dujardin - Trends in Parasitology, 2023 - cell.com
Abstract Treatment failure (TF) jeopardizes the management of parasitic diseases, including
leishmaniasis. From the parasite's point of view, drug resistance (DR) is generally …

[HTML][HTML] Extracellular Vesicles Derived from Early and Late Stage Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Red Blood Cells Contain Invasion-Associated Proteins

S Vimonpatranon, S Roytrakul, N Phaonakrop… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In infectious diseases, extracellular vesicles (EVs) released from a pathogen or pathogen-
infected cells can transfer pathogen-derived biomolecules, especially proteins, to target cells …

TriTrypDB: An integrated functional genomics resource for kinetoplastida

A Shanmugasundram, D Starns, U Böhme… - PLoS neglected …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Parasitic diseases caused by kinetoplastid parasites are a burden to public health
throughout tropical and subtropical regions of the world. TriTrypDB (https://tritrypdb. org) is a …

Profiling the bloodstream form and procyclic form Trypanosoma brucei cell cycle using single-cell transcriptomics

EM Briggs, CA Marques, GR Oldrieve, J Hu, TD Otto… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
African trypanosomes proliferate as bloodstream forms (BSFs) and procyclic forms in the
mammal and tsetse fly midgut, respectively. This allows them to colonise the host …

Post-transcriptional reprogramming by thousands of mRNA untranslated regions in trypanosomes

A Trenaman, M Tinti, RJ Wall, D Horn - Nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
Although genome-wide polycistronic transcription places major emphasis on post-
transcriptional controls in trypanosomatids, messenger RNA cis-regulatory untranslated …

The developmental hierarchy and scarcity of replicative slender trypanosomes in blood challenges their role in infection maintenance

SD Larcombe, EM Briggs, N Savill, B Szoor… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
The development of Trypanosoma brucei in its mammalian host is marked by a distinct
morphological change as replicative “slender” forms differentiate into cell cycle arrested …