锥体虫是动鞭毛虫纲动质虫目锥体虫属的通称。成虫主要寄生在脊椎动物(尤其是鱼类、鸟类和哺乳类)的血液中。在南美洲和中美洲的致查加斯氏病(Chagas' disease)的克氏锥虫(T. cruzi)和不致病的朗杰尔氏锥虫(T. rangeli)由吸血昆虫传播。成虫主要寄生在脊椎动物(尤其是鱼类、鸟类和哺乳类)的血液中。
该中心内大量研究与非洲锥体虫有关。
Much of the research within the center concerns African trypanosomes.
这种疾病由于锥体寄生虫引发，它是通过被感染的采采蝇叮咬传染给人类的。
The disease is caused by the trypanosoma parasite. It is spread to humans through the bite of infected tsetse flies.
锥体科寄生原虫病在一些国家和地区造成巨大的人力和物力损失，如非洲睡眠病和枯氏锥虫病以及利什曼原虫病（黑热病）等，如不加以治疗，致死率可达100%。
The losses of the manpower and material resources was inflicted greatly outside china by the trypanosomatids parasite diseases. Some diseases, if untreated, the fatal is 100%.
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