Dourine
Trypanosoma equiperdum
Τrypanosoma equiperdum is a species of kinetoplastid parasites that causes covering sickness in horses and other animals in the family Equidae. T. equiperdum is the only known trypanosome that is not spread by an insect vector. There has been substantial controversy surrounding whether T. equiperdum should be considered a unique species, or a strain of T. evansi or T. brucei. T. equiperdum is unique in that its kinetoplast, the network of connected rings that make up
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 972038.