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African trypanosomes swim in the liver sinusoids and interact with immune myeloid cells.
A false-colored scanning electron microscopy image shows the parasite Trypanosoma brucei (blue; length of 15 micrometers) and innate immune myeloid cells (brown), in the hepatic vessels of an infected mouse. The parasites manipulate the myeloid cells in order to get nutrients required for their own growth. Trypanosomes are responsible for human sleeping sickness, a lethal disease in Africa. See De Muylder et al.
Image Credit: Gilles Vanwalleghem, David Monteyne, Etienne Pays, and David Pérez-Morga (Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Médicale [IBMM], and Center for Microscopy and Molecular Imaging [CMMI], Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium).
Citation: (2013) PLoS Pathogens Issue Image | Vol. 9(10) October 2013. PLoS Pathog 9(10): ev09.i10. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.ppat.v09.i10
Published: October 31, 2013
Copyright: © 2013 Pérez-Morga. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
A false-colored scanning electron microscopy image shows the parasite Trypanosoma brucei (blue; length of 15 micrometers) and innate immune myeloid cells (brown), in the hepatic vessels of an infected mouse. The parasites manipulate the myeloid cells in order to get nutrients required for their own growth. Trypanosomes are responsible for human sleeping sickness, a lethal disease in Africa. See De Muylder et al.
Image Credit: Gilles Vanwalleghem, David Monteyne, Etienne Pays, and David Pérez-Morga (Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Médicale [IBMM], and Center for Microscopy and Molecular Imaging [CMMI], Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium).