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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Comment on ‘Unexpected plasticity in the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei

    Keith R Matthews, Stephen Larcombe
    We are writing to comment on the article by Schuster et al., 2021 about the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Evolutionary diversification of the trypanosome haptoglobin-haemoglobin receptor from an ancestral haemoglobin receptor

    Harriet Lane-Serff, Paula MacGregor ... Mark Carrington
    The ligand specificity and expression profile of the haptoglobin-haemoglobin receptor has diversified throughout the evolution of trypanosomes.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Immunopathology and Trypanosoma congolense parasite sequestration cause acute cerebral trypanosomiasis

    Sara Silva Pereira, Mariana De Niz ... Luisa M Figueiredo
    While Trypanosoma congolense is mostly known to cause a chronic wasting disease in animals, a new mouse model shows that acute cerebral trypanosomiasis is triggered by parasite sequestration and infiltration of T helper cells in the brain parenchyma.