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THE terrible mortality caused by sleeping sickness in Africa, and the knowledge that this deadly disease is caused by a species of trypanosome, has directed the attention of the general public, as well as of scientific and medical men all over the world, to these blood-parasites. The frequent occurrence of trypanosomes in the blood of vertebrate animals of all classes has long been known to zoologists, but this fact was regarded as little more than a scientific curiosity until Bruce, scarcely fifteen years ago, showed that a species of trypanosome, since named after him (Trypanosoma brucii), was the cause of the dreaded tsetse-fly disease of domestic animals in Africa, and followed this up by his discoveries, in the present century, with regard to the nature and transmission of sleeping sickness.
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"Nova trinanosomiaze humana". By C. Chagas . Memorias do Institute Oswaldo Cruz I., 1009. Pp. 159–218; plates ix–xiii and 10 text-figures. (Portuguese and German text.)
See the Bulletin of the Pasteur Institute for May 30, 1909, p. 453.
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MINCHIN, E. A New Trypanosome Parasitic in Human Beings 1 . Nature 84, 142–144 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084142a0
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