| These systems have been evaluated on various trypanosome taxa for their specificity and sensitivity. |
| Mother to child infection: the trypanosome can cross the placenta and infect the fetus, causing perinatal death. |
| This disease is caused by a Protozoan parasite, a trypanosome, which is transmitted from one host to another by the tsetse-fly. |
| The trypanosome passes part of its life cycle in the insect and again becomes infective to humans. |
| The genes for important surface proteins of the trypanosome have been discovered. |
| Some weeks later they evolve into the trypanosome forms, pathogenic for man. |
