Definition of "kinetoplastid" [kinetoplastid]

• Any of a group of parasitic flagellate protozoa, of the class Kinetoplastida, responsible for several diseases in humans and animals (noun)

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• "Simpson AGB, Stevens JR, Lukes J (2006) The evolution and diversity of kinetoplastid flagellates."
• "Trypanosoma - Trypanosomatidae is the family this trypanosome ids from, comprising kinetoplastid flagellates that as adults are elongated and somewhat spindle-shaped, have a posteriorly arising flagellum which passes forward at the margin of anundulating membrane and emerges near the anterior end of the body as a short free flagellum, and are parasitic in the blood or rarely the tissues of vertebrates, that in the development phase whichoccurs in the digestive tract of a blood-sucking invertebrate and usually an insect pass through a series of changes comparable to the typical forms of members of the genera Leishmania, Leptomonas, and"
• "* Trypanosoma - Trypanosomatidae is the family this trypanosome ids from, comprising kinetoplastid flagellates that as adults are elongated and somewhat spindle-shaped, have a posteriorly arising flagellum which passes forward at the margin of anundulating membrane and emerges near the anterior end of the body as a short free flagellum, and are parasitic in the blood or rarely the tissues of vertebrates, that in the development phase whichoccurs in the digestive tract of a blood-sucking invertebrate and usually an insect pass through a series of changes comparable to the typical forms of members of the genera Leishmania, Leptomonas, and"