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Trehalose Metabolism of Trypanosomes

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THE trypanosomes causing African sleeping sickness from the blood of man and other animals can be cultivated on non-living media. Such cultures exhibit one striking peculiarity: as soon as established they are not infectious for mammals.

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WEINMAN, D. Trehalose Metabolism of Trypanosomes. Nature 186, 166 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186166a0

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