Selected Species
Species of Trypanosoma include the following:
- T. ambystomae. in amphibians
- T. antiquus, extinct (Fossil in Eocene amber)
- T. avium, which causes trypanosomiasis in birds
- T. boissoni, in elasmobranch
- T. brucei, which causes sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in cattle
- T. cruzi, which causes Chagas disease in humans
- T. congolense, which causes nagana in ruminant livestock, horses and a wide range of wildlife
- T. equinum, in South American horses, transmitted via Tabanidae,
- T. equiperdum, which causes dourine or covering sickness in horses and other Equidae, it can be spread through coitus.
- T. evansi, which causes one form of the disease surra in certain animals (a single case report of human infection in 2005 in India was successfully treated with suramin)
- T. everetti, in birds
- T. hosei, in amphibians
- T. irwini, in koalas
- T. lewisi, in rats
- T. melophagium, in sheep, transmitted via Melophagus ovinus
- T. paddae, in birds
- T. parroti, in amphibians
- T. percae, in the species Perca fluviatilis
- T. rangeli, believed to be nonpathogenic to humans
- T. rotatorium, in amphibians
- T. rugosae, in amphibians
- T. sergenti, in amphibians
- T. simiae, which causes nagana in pigs. Its main reservoirs are warthogs and bush pigs
- T. sinipercae, in fishes
- T. suis, which causes a different form of surra
- T. theileri, a large trypanosome infecting ruminants
- T. triglae, in marine teleosts
- T. vivax, which causes the disease nagana, mainly in West Africa, although it has spread to South America
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