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GENUS TRYPANOSOMA Flashcards

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Trypanosoma

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✓ Flagellate protozoan parasites that live in the blood, lymph and various tissues of their vertebrate hosts

✓ parasites of all vertebrate classes

✓ majority are transmitted by blood-feeding invertebrates, although other transmission mechanisms exist

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Genus Trypanosoma under Subgenus NANNOMONAS

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T. congolense and T. simiae

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Genus Trypanosoma under Subgenus DUTTONELA

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T. vivax

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Genus Trypanosoma under Subgenus MEGATRYPANUM

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T. theileri and T. melophagium

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Genus Trypanosoma under Subgenus TRYPANOZOON

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T. brucei brucei, T. brucei gambiense, T. brucei rhodesiense, T. equinum, T. evansi and T. equiperdum

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2-3um Leishmania amastigote maybe the smallest eukaryotic cells

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Amastigote

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flagellum is very short, projecting only slightly beyond the flagellar pocket

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Amastigote

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elongated body with flagellum extending forward as a functional organelle

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Promastigote

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kinetosome and kinetoplast are located in front of the mucleus, near the anterior end of the body

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Promastigote

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Kinetoplast and kinetosome are still located between the nucleus and the anterior end, but a short undulating membrane lies along the proximal part of the flagellum

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Epimastigote (Crithidial)

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Kinetoplast and kinetosome are near to the posterior end of the body

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Trypomastigote (trypanosome)

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flagellum runs along the surface, usually continuing as a free whip anterior to the body

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Trypomastigote (trypanosome)

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Two broad groups of Trypanosomes

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✓ Hemoflagellates
✓ Mucoflagellates

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blood and tissue parasites

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Hemoflagellates

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live in the mouth and the cecum/colon

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Mucoflagellates

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Two broad groups of Trypanosomes

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✓ Salivaria
✓ Stercoraria

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develops at the anterior portions of the digestive tract (anterior station)

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Salivaria

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Example of Salivaria

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T. brucei ssp., T. evansi, T. congolense, T. vivax

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develop at the vectors hindgut (posterior station)

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Stercoraria

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Example of Stercoraria

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T. cruzi, T. lewisi, T. theileri, T. melophagium, T. canorini

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do not require development in an intermediate host

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Trypanosoma equiperdum and T. equinum

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Salivarian Trypanosome

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Fly takes in the trypanosome by feeding- Develops into infective form in the salivary glands- Infective form transferred to animal by feeding

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Stercorarian Trypanosome

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Fly takes in the trypanosome by feeding- Trypanosome develops into infective form in the rectum- Infective form transferred to another animal through feces

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Modes of Transmission of Trypanosomes

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• Cyclical
• Non-cyclical
• Coitus
• Transplacental
• Ingestion of fresg carcasses or organs of animals which died of the infection intrauterine

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anterior station development; multiplication and transformation in the gut and proboscis; transmission is by feeding

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Salivaria

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posterior station development; multiplication in the gut; infective forms migrate to the rectum and passed out in the feces

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Stercoraria

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mechanical transmission by TABANIDS and STOMOXYS; no cross transmission because trypanosomes die quickly

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Noncyclical

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arthropod intermediate host (biological)

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Cyclical

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Pathogenesis of Trypanosomes

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✓ Lymphoid enlargement
✓ Hemolysis
✓ Cell degeneration and inflammatory infiltrate

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exhaustion of cellular elements

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lymphoid enlargement

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failure of phagocytic system

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Hemolysis

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tissue degeneratiom particularly the CNS and the heart muscles

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Cell degeneration and inflammatory infiltrate

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Determines the spread of Trypanosomiasis

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• Distribution of vectors
• Virulence
• Host preference

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Trypanosoma brucei consists of 3 subspecies;

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✓ Trypanosoma brucei brucei
✓ Trypanosoma brucei gambiense
✓ Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense

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pleomorphic, showing long slender, short stumpy and intermediate forms

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Trypanosoma brucei

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represents the ancestral form

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Trypanosoma brucei

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T. b. gambiense and T. b. rhodesiense have evolved from it

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All utilize the GLOSSINA FLIES (TSETSE FLIES) as the vector. ID by wing veination “Hatchet cells”

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Trypanosoma brucei

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Trypanosoma brucei life cycle

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° only 2 stages in life cycle
° Epimastigote and the trypomastigote stages

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Trypanosoma brucei brucei transmit;

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  • African Animal Trypanosomiasis
    (AAT: tsetse disease, tsetse fly disease, AFRICAN ANIMAL NAGANA)
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Trypanosoma brucei brucei affects livestock animals like?

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Sheep, goats, oxen, horses, camels, pigs, dogs, donkeys, and mules; non-pathogenic to humans

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Lives in the blood, lymph nodes and spleen and CSF

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Nagana (Trypanosoma brucei brucei)

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Pathogenesis of Nagana (T. b. brucei)

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✓ Horse, mules and donkey, dogs- suffer acutely and may die in 15 days

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Symptoms of Nagana (T. b. brucei)

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Anemia, edema, watery eyes and nose and fever; blindness is common in dogs

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are parasitic in the bloodstream of sheep, goats, cattle, horses, pigs and dogs may also be infected but cattle most important

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Trypomastigotes

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Trypomastigotes

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  • Cattle become emaciated and uncoordinated
  • Cattle die in a few weeks to months
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common drug treatment of trypomastigotes

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Berenil

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Infects humans only causing SLEEPING SICKNESS

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Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense

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called as sleeping sickness

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Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT)

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Vector of T. b. gambiense and T. b. rhodesiense (Sleeping sickness)

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Glossina palpalis and G. morsitans

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less plentiful. cannot live in lab animals

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T. brucei gambiense

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Reservoir host of T. b. gambiense

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goats, cattle & pigs

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T. brucei gambiense transmitted by?

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G. palpalis

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More plentiful. Can live in lab animals. Nucleus is shifted posteriorly

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T. brucei rhodesiense

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Reservoir host of T. brucei rhodesiense

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wild game animals

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T. brucei rhodesiense transmitted by?

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G. morsitans

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Pathogenesis of HAT

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  • Chancre
  • Swollen and congested lymph nodes at neck, groin and legs
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develops where metacyclic trypanosomes are inoculated

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Chancre

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Swollen and congested lymph nodes at neck, groin and legs

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Winterbottom’s sign

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rapid weight loss and heart involvement; no somnambulism or other protracted nervous disorders

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T. b. rhodesiense

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invade the central nervous system, they initiate the chronic, sleeping-sickness stage of infection

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T. b. gambiense

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Pathogenesis of Sleeping sickness

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Chancre- blood- lymphatics- CNS- Death

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increase apathy, disinclination to work, mental dullness; tremor of the tongue, hands, paralysis or convulsions usually follow

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Sleeping Sickness

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Sleeping sickness

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  • sleeping increases with patient falling asleep even while eating or standing
  • finally coma and death ensue (malnutrition, pneumonia, heart failure, severe fall)
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Treatment for Sleeping sickness most common used, useful but they have severe side effects

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Melarsoprol or Suramin

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Trypanosoma congolense

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  • Causes “Nagana disease”
  • fatal in cattle and other domestic animals; wild ruminants
  • Africa
  • Transmitted by Glossina and biting flies
  • Severe anemia with no immature RBC
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Trypanosoma vivax

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  • Causes “Souma”
  • Affects the blood of ruminants and other animals; wild game animals are reservoir
  • Africa, South and Central America
  • Mucosal and serosal hemorrhages in the body, anemia
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causes Nagana disease

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Trypanosoma congolense

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fatal in cattle and other domestic animals; wild ruminants

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Trypanosoma congolense

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Trypanosoma congolense transmitted by?

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Glossina and biting flies

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can cause sever anemia with no immature RBC

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Trypanosoma congolense

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causes Souma

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Trypanosoma vivax

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Affects the blood of ruminants and other animals; wild game animals are reservoirs

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Trypanosoma vivax

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can cause mucosal and serosal hemorrhages in the body, anemia

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Trypanosoma vivax

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Affects blood of large ruminants

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Trypanosoma theileri

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present in the Philippines (65% prevalence in cattle and carabaos on culture but responds negative to mouse test)

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Trypanosoma theileri

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Trypanosoma theileri transmitted by?

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Biting flies; TABANUS and HAEMATOPOTA

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Transmitted by biting flies; Tabanus and Haematopota

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Trypanosoma theileri

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has been associated with “Turning sickness” in Uganda, abortion and decreased milk yield

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Trypanosoma theileri

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may interfere with the diagnosis of Surra (larger than T. evansi)

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Trypanosoma theileri

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Treatment for Trypanosoma Theileri

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° Diminazene aceturate (DA)
° Isometamidium chloride (IMC)
° Suramin
° Quinapyramine

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most widely used. binding to kinetoplast DNA thereby inducing complete and irreversible loss of kDNA in certain strains of trypanosomes

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Diminazene aceturate (DA)

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highly toxic because they are DNA intercalating agents. Use in field is not recommended

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Isometamidium chloride (IMC)

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ureic component, no longer used. Inhibition of enzymes involved with the oxidation of reduced nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide (NADH)

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Suramin

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