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Climate change and African trypanosomiasis vector populations in Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley: A mathematical modelling study

PLoS Medicine, 2018
Background Quantifying the effects of climate change on the entomological and epidemiological components of vector-borne diseases is an essential part of climate change research, but evidence for such effects remains scant, and predictions rely largely ...
Jennifer S. Lord, J. Hargrove, S. Torr, G. Vale   +3 more
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Human Leukocyte Antigen-G: A Promising Prognostic Marker of Disease Progression to Improve the Control of Human African Trypanosomiasis [PDF]

, 2016
Laure Gineau, David Courtin, Mamadou Camara, Hamidou Ilboudo, Vincent Jamonneau, Fabrício C. Dias, Léonidas Tokplonou, Jacqueline Milet, Priscila Baptista Mendonça, Erick C. Castelli, Oumou Camara, Mariam Camara, Benoı̂t Favier, Nathalie Rouas‐Freiss, Philippe Moreau, Eduardo Antônio Donadi, Bruno Bucheton, Audrey Sabbagh, André Garcia   +18 more
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Performance of the SD BIOLINE® HAT rapid test in various diagnostic algorithms for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

PLoS ONE, 2017
We carried out a study to compare the performance, in terms of sensitivity and specificity, of the new SD BIOLINE® HAT rapid diagnostic test (RDT) with the card agglutination test for trypanosomiasis (CATT) for diagnosis of human African trypanosomiasis (
C. Lumbala, P. Bessell, P. Lutumba, Sylvain Baloji, S. Biéler, J. Ndung'u   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Immunoprophylaxis Against African Trypanosomiasis

, 1977
To put the subject matter of this chapter in its proper perspective, it should first be made clear that the development of a vaccine against trypanosomiasis of cattle and sheep is perhaps the last practical possibility which would occur to most people whose daily business is concerned with the control of trypanosomiasis in the field in Africa today ...
Murray, M., Urquhart, G.M.
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Molecular epidemiology of African trypanosomiasis: the contributions of David George Godfrey OBE to the biochemical characterization of trypanosomes*

Parasite, 2008
The accurate identification of the causative organisms of disease is fundamental to the study of epidemiology. Hence molecular tools are now widely used to detect and distinguish pathogens, and have greatly improved our understanding of epidemiology ...
Gibson W.
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Human African Trypanosomiasis in Non‐Endemic Countries (2000–2010) [PDF]

, 2011
Pere P. Simarro, José R. Franco, Giuliano Cecchi, Massimo Paone, Abdoulaye Diarra, José A Ruiz-Postigo, J Jannin   +6 more
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Feasibility of a dried blood spot strategy for serological screening and surveillance to monitor elimination of Human African Trypanosomiasis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

, 2021
Raquel Inocêncio da Luz, Delphin Mavinga Phanzu, Oscar N’lemvo Kiabanzawoko, Eric Mwamba Miaka, Paul Verlé, Anja De Weggheleire, Philippe Büscher, Epco Hasker, Marleen Boelaert   +8 more
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Drug Discovery for Human African Trypanosomiasis: Identification of Novel Scaffolds by the Newly Developed HTS SYBR Green Assay for Trypanosoma brucei [PDF]

, 2014
Joana Faria, Carolina Borsoi Moraes, Rita Song, Bruno S. Pascoalino, Nakyung Lee, Jair L. Siqueira-Neto, Deu John M. Cruz, Tanya Parkinson, Jean‐Robert Ioset, Anabela Cordeiro‐da‐Silva, Lúcio H. Freitas-Júnior   +10 more
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Benefit-Cost Analysis and Socio-Economic Considerations of Trypanosomiasis Control and Treatment in Northern Ghana [PDF]

The paper estimates the cost of tsetse control and treatment of trypanosomiasis and the benefits involved, using benefit-cost analysis. It also estimates the extent to which socio-economic characteristics of farmers affect the use of tsetse control ...
Asuming-Brempong, Samuel, Wahab, S.
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Africa and the Cattle Without History

Global Environment
African historiography of tsetse-borne trypanosomiasis has yet to fully embrace the genetic basis of cattle tolerance to the disease due to the literature’s emphasis on human illness and landscape modification.
Tad Brown
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