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trypanosome
A protozoan responsible for trypanosomiasis of the African (sleeping sickness) and South American (Chagas' disease) varieties, carried by the tsetse fly and certain bugs respectively. Trypanosomes are relatively insensitive to chemotherapy in established cases; prevention is therefore important.
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