Microbiology 9th Edition by Laura Black, Jacquelyn Black

Exercise 13

Match the following descriptions to parasitic diseases of the nervous system:_____ African sleeping sickness _____Chagas' disease
(a) Trypanosoma cruzi
(b) Trypanosoma brucei gambiense
(c) Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense
(d) Transmitted by defecating reduviid bugs
(e) No treatment or cure
(f) Treated with pentamidine, suramin, and melarsoprol
(g) Transmitted by tsetse fly
(h) Evasion of host defenses by constant altering of surface antigens
(i) Evasion of host defenses by preventing activation of T cells