trypanosomiasis
noun
try·pano·so·mi·a·sis
tri-ˌpa-nə-sə-ˈmī-ə-səs 
plural trypanosomiases
tri-ˌpa-nə-sə-ˈmī-ə-ˌsēz
: infection with or disease caused by trypanosomes
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These include some of mankind’s most ancient microbial adversaries: malaria, leprosy, cholera, typhoid and human African trypanosomiasis (HAT).
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Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2013
Another example is the parasite Trypanosoma brucei, which causes the disease African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness.
—Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
Around the end of the nineteenth century, two major African trypanosomiasis epidemics swept through what is now Eastern Uganda, and Western Kenya.
—Carey Baraka, Quartz Africa, 26 Apr. 2020
And in 2020, the World Health Organization hopes to eliminate sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, as a public health problem.
—Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 30 Dec. 2019
Local medical personnel are receiving more training to screen for and diagnose trypanosomiasis.
—Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
The parasite then enters the bloodstream and causes Chagas disease, also known as trypanosomiasis.
—Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 19 May 2017
Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2013
Another example is the parasite Trypanosoma brucei, which causes the disease African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness.
—Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
Around the end of the nineteenth century, two major African trypanosomiasis epidemics swept through what is now Eastern Uganda, and Western Kenya.
—Carey Baraka, Quartz Africa, 26 Apr. 2020
And in 2020, the World Health Organization hopes to eliminate sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, as a public health problem.
—Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 30 Dec. 2019
Local medical personnel are receiving more training to screen for and diagnose trypanosomiasis.
—Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
The parasite then enters the bloodstream and causes Chagas disease, also known as trypanosomiasis.
—Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 19 May 2017
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trypanosomiasis
noun
try·pano·so·mi·a·sis
tri-ˌpan-ə-sə-ˈmī-ə-səs
plural trypanosomiases
-ˌsēz
: infection with or disease (as African sleeping sickness or Chagas disease) caused by flagellates of the genus Trypanosoma
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