New treatments for sleeping sickness disease could emerge from a study of sleeping sickness parasite by the University of Edinburgh researchers.

The parasite maintains a trade-off between maintaining enough parasites to beat off the immune response and cause infection, and ensuring sufficient parasites to enable the spread of the disease.
"Sleeping sickness parasites alter their form in order to ensure their survival and spread. We hope that, having discovered more about how these parasites behave, we will be able to develop ways of interfering with their survival strategy and interrupt the spread of this disease," said professor Keith Matthews of the University of Edinburgh, who led the study.
The study has been published in the journal Cell Host and Microbe.
Source-ANI