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Editor's Pics

The Parasite Behind Sleeping Sickness

Published: December 19, 2019

Editor's Pics

Published: December 19, 2019

Credit: Mick Urbaniak

This is a scanning electron microscopy image of Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite which causes the tropical disease, sleeping sickness.

Credit: Mick Urbaniak

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