One thing you might want even less than a 'kiss' from a kissing bug is its feces. Scientifically referred to as triatomine bugs, these blood-sucking insects can carry in their feces and pass on to ...

Researchers have mapped how the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi forms new variants that are more effective at evading the immune system and causing disease. Their findings can give rise to new methods for ...

This image shows a three-dimensional map of the basic structural unit in the parasite Trypanosoma brucei’s flagellum, with various mechanical and motor proteins labeled. Millions of people worldwide ...

Bugs in the southeastern US may be spreading deadly, disease-causing parasites, experts warn. Researchers in Florida and Texas spent 10 years tracking the transmission of Chagas disease, a dangerous ...

New insight on how a parasite can resist current therapies has been published today in the open-access eLife journal. An infection with Chagas disease is only possible in Latin America since the ...

Researchers have made a further step toward understanding sleeping sickness – a chronic disease caused by Trypanosoma parasites, which affect the human central nervous system. The team have generated ...

Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of African sleeping sickness, represents a paradigm of parasite evolution and immune evasion. Its ability to periodically change its variant surface ...

The first ever vaccine target for trypanosomes, a family of parasites that cause devastating disease in animals and humans, has been discovered. By targeting a protein on the cell surface of the ...

The manuscript concerns a fundamental and controversial question in Trypanosoma brucei biology and the parasite life cycle, providing further evidence that slender bloodstream forms can indeed infect ...