Publication Date:
2017-11-22
Description:
Trypanosoma brucei, the pathogen that causes sleeping sickness, has a clever and insidious trick to help it navigate its hosts’ innards: It changes shape depending on its surroundings. In bodily fluids, the bacterium assumes a long and narrow shape to propel itself forward, whipping its tail-like flagellum and spinning like...
Keywords:
Inner Workings, Front Matter
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General