Slow growing behavior in African trypanosomes during adipose tissue colonization

Trypanosoma brucei parasites invade different organs, such as the central nervous system, adipose tissue, and skin in mammalian host. Here, Trindade et al. perform mathematical modelling to show that adipose tissue forms (ATFs) grow slower than the bloodstream forms and experimentally characterize t...

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Main Authors: Sandra Trindade, Mariana De Niz, Mariana Costa-Sequeira, Tiago Bizarra-Rebelo, Fábio Bento, Mario Dejung, Marta Valido Narciso, Lara López-Escobar, João Ferreira, Falk Butter, Frédéric Bringaud, Erida Gjini, Luisa M. Figueiredo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34622-w