Trypanosoma brucei gambiense
Synonyms
Trypanosoma brucei gambienses
Trypanosoma gambiense
Trypanosoma gambienses
brucei gambiense, Trypanosoma
brucei gambienses, Trypanosoma
gambiense, Trypanosoma brucei
gambienses, Trypanosoma
A hemoflagellate subspecies of parasitic protozoa that causes Gambian or West African sleeping sickness in humans. The vector host is usually the tsetse fly (Glossina).