Medical Microbiology

Trypanosomatidaemultiplybylongitudinalbinaryfission.InTrypanosoma

bruceibrucei(seebelow)thereisevidenceofgeneticexchangeduringdevel-

opmentwithinthevector(sexualreproduction).

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Trypanosomatidae

Fig.9.3 aUltrastructureofTrypanosoma(trypomastigoticform)(accordingto

WarrenKSed.ImmunologyandMolecularBiologyofParasiticInfections.3rded.Bos-

ton:Blackwell; 1 993).bDevelopmentalforms: 1 amastigote, 2 promastigote,

3 epimastigote, 4 trypomastigote.

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