Haematozoa
Haematozoa or Hematozoa is a general term that includes blood parasites, mainly protozoans. Well known examples include the malaria and trypanosoma parasites, but a large number of species are known to infect birds and are transmitted by arthropod vectors.[1]
Common Haematozoa
Trypanosoma brucei ssp.
This group of protozoan parasites includes two agents which cause African sleeping sickness, Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. A third, morphologically identical species, Trypanosoma brucei brucei, infects domestic and wild animals but does not cause disease in humans because it is lysed by apolipoproetin L1 in the high-density lipoprotein fraction of human serum.[2]
The vector for these protozoans is the Tsetse Fly (Glossina spp.)
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- ↑ Hematozoa - Aconoidasida at tolweb.org.
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