African sleeping sickness parasite's previously unrecognized extreme social behavior discovered

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African sleeping sickness parasite's previously unrecognized extreme social behavior discovered

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Long considered a freewheeling loner, the Trypanosoma brucei parasite responsible for African sleeping sickness has revealed a totally unexpected social side, opening a potential chink in the behavioral armor of this and other supposedly solitary human parasites, according to research presented at the American Society for Cell Biology's 50th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

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