Nature 178, 362 (18 August 1956); doi:10.1038/178362a0

Induced Change from Culture Form to Blood-stream Form in Trypanosoma mega

M. STEINERT & G. J. BONÉ

Institut pour la Recherche Scientifique en Afrique Centrale, Centre de Recherche du Katanga, Elisabethville, Congo Belge. March 27.

IN its vertebrate host, a trypanosome multiplies in the trypanosoma form while, in its invertebrate host, it first takes the crithidial form, which is no longer infective, to reappear as metacyclic forms at the end of its cycle. Similarly, in culture, the bloodstream trypanosomes lose their infective power and their typical shape and become transformed into the crithidial form.

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