African trypanosome
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Related to African trypanosome: Human African trypanosomiasis, West African trypanosomiasis
African trypanosome
n.
Any of various trypanosomes of sub-Saharan Africa that are transmitted by tsetse flies and cause sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in livestock.
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