The answer to this question depends entirely upon your background, training and interests, whether you are a scientist (biologists, epidemiologist, immunologist etc), veterinarian, or public health officer, or other. Trypanosomes are amongst the most widely spread parasites in the world and are used by scientist as a model organisms for the study of basic aspects of biology, such as genetics, evolution, immune evasion, drug development etc. To give you a few examples read my blog (http://big.icp.ucl.ac.be/~opperd/metabolism/Kinetoplastida/Blog/Blog.html)
I am a postgraduate student of public health Parasitology. So I wish to carry out a research on Trypanosoma parasite and am specifically interested in treatment aspect