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The zooflagellate Trypanosoma gambiense is responsible for the african sleeping sickness.
She spent time as protozoologist to what was then the Uganda Protectorate from 1911-14 where she researched the lifecycle of Trypanosoma gambiense (which causes African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness) in blood and in its insect carrier, the tsetse fly, publishing her path-breaking results.