True cyst formation in Tritrichomonas foetus: a survival and drug-resistance strategy redefining protozoan biology

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Tritrichomonas foetus, a protozoan parasite responsible for bovine and feline trichomonosis, has traditionally been considered to form only pseudocysts. Here, we reveal that T. foetus produces true cysts characterized by chitin like components-rich, fibrillar walls, cytoskeletal reorganization, and resistance to detergent treatment. Cystogenesis is induced by environmental stresses such...

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• Cats
• Drug Discovery
• Molecular Sequence Annotation
• Nucleotide Motifs
• Peptide Hydrolases
• Protease Inhibitors
• Protozoan Infections, Animal
• Reproductive tract infections research

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Literature Corpus work

0a689574-d0b7-5752-a39b-e2da0c983595

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-7411338/v1