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What is the causative agent of sleeping sickness in humans?

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trypanosoma brucei

Figure 15.12 Trypanosoma brucei is the causative agent of sleeping sickness in humans. The mRNAs of this pathogen must be modified by the addition of nucleotides before protein synthesis can occur.  credit: modification of work by Torsten Ochsenreiter .

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