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Trypanosoma brucei bloodstream form
Species name:Trypanosoma brucei
Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland Prof. Torsten Ochsenreiter
Trypanosoma brucei (Mitat1.1) is a single celled protozoan parasite that causes Human african trypanomiasis and Nagana in cattle. The movie is in slow motion the cells actually swim much faster. Images were captured by Dr. Torsten Ochsenreiter using a Zeiss Cell Observer Microscope (63x DIC objective) at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA.