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.)

References

  1. ↑ Hematozoa - Aconoidasida at tolweb.org.
  2. ↑ Guerrant, Richard L.; Walker, David H.; Weller, Peter F. (2006). Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principle, Pathogens, & Practice (2nd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier, Inc. pp. 1072–1081. ISBN 9780443066689.


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