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THERE are different theories about the significance of polymorphism in trypanosomes of the brucei group. According to Robertson1, stumpy forms elongate into slender forms, which divide, giving rise again to stumpy forms. Fairbairn and Culwick2 separated slender, intermediate and stumpy forms as three distinct entities, which they believed were produced by the sexual process of syngamy.
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Robertson, M., Report of the Sleeping Sickness Commission, 13, 104 (1913).
Fairbairn, H., and Culwick, A. T., Ann. Trop. Med. Parasit., 40, 421 (1946).
Hoare, C. A., Parasitology, 46, 130 (1956).
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WIJERS, D. Polymorphism in Human Trypanosomiasis. Nature 180, 391–392 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180391a0
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