Trypanosoma brucei brucei
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Life cycle of sleeping sickness causing parasite
This is a low power scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of Trypanosoma brucei brucei parasites at the procyclic stage from the midgut of a tsetse fly.
Note the long, free flagellum at the anterior end and the lack of a conspicuous undulating membrane.