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African Trypanosomiasis Gambiense, Italy

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005
African trypanosomiasis caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense has not been reported in Italy. We report 2 cases diagnosed in the summer of 2004. Theses cases suggest an increased risk for expatriates working in trypanosomiasis-endemic countries. Travel medicine clinics should be increasingly aware of this potentially fatal disease.
Bisoffi, Z, Beltrame, A, Monteiro, G, Arzese, A, Marocco, S., Rorato, G, Anselmi, H., Viale, P.   +7 more
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Chemotherapy of Human African Trypanosomiasis [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2009
Human Africa trypanosomiasis is a centuries-old disease which has disrupted sub-Saharan Africa in both physical suffering and economic loss. This article presents an update of classic chemotherapeutic agents, in use for >50 years and the recent development of promising non-toxic combination chemotherapy suitable for use in rural clinics.
Cyrus J. Bacchi
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Epidemiology of human African trypanosomiasis

Clinical Epidemiology, 2014
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, is caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, which is a chronic form of the disease present in western and central Africa, and by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, which is an acute disease located in eastern and southern Africa.
Pere P. Simarro, Jean Jannin, Abdoulaye Diarra, José R. Franco   +3 more
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Current Treatments to Control African Trypanosomiasis and One Health Perspective. [PDF]

Microorganisms, 2022
Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT, sleeping sickness) and Animal African Trypanosomiasis (AAT) are neglected tropical diseases generally caused by the same etiological agent, Trypanosoma brucei.
Venturelli A, Tagliazucchi L, Lima C, Venuti F, Malpezzi G, Magoulas GE, Santarem N, Calogeropoulou T, Cordeiro-da-Silva A, Costi MP.   +9 more
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Reemergence of Human African Trypanosomiasis Caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, Ethiopia. [PDF]

Emerg Infect Dis
We report 4 cases of human African trypanosomiasis that occurred in Ethiopia in 2022, thirty years after the last previously reported case in the country. Two of 4 patients died before medicine became available.
Abera A, Mamecha T, Abose E, Bokicho B, Ashole A, Bishaw T, Mariyo A, Bogale B, Terefe H, Tadesse H, Belachew M, Difabachew H, Eukubay A, Kinde S, Ali A, Regasa F, Seife F, Kebede Z, Wossen M, Tollera G, Hailu M, Manaye N, Van Reet N, Priotto G, van Griensven J, Pareyn M, Tasew G.   +26 more
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Evaluating paratransgenesis as a potential control strategy for African trypanosomiasis. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2013
Genetic-modification strategies are currently being developed to reduce the transmission of vector-borne diseases, including African trypanosomiasis. For tsetse, the vector of African trypanosomiasis, a paratransgenic strategy is being considered: this ...
Jan Medlock, Katherine E Atkins, David N Thomas, Serap Aksoy, Alison P Galvani   +4 more
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Unusual neurological presentation of second stage African trypanosomiasis in a young boy: a case report

BMC Pediatrics, 2022
Background In South Sudan, sleeping sickness is a frequent condition caused by human African trypanosomiasis. There are two stages that are well-known.
Etedal Ahmed A. Ibrahim, Mohammed Gasm Elseed M. Elmahal, Khabab Abbasher Hussien Mohamed Ahmed, Elfatih A. Hasabo, Mohammed Eltahier Abdalla Omer   +4 more
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Potential applicability of the importation risk index for predicting the risk of rarely imported infectious diseases

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background There have been many prediction studies for imported infectious diseases, employing air-travel volume or the importation risk (IR) index, which is the product of travel-volume and disease burden in the source countries, as major predictors ...
Kyung-Duk Min, Sun-Young Kim, Yoon Young Cho, Seyoung Kim, Joon-Sup Yeom   +4 more
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Insights into the Control and Management of Human and Bovine African Trypanosomiasis in Zambia between 2009 and 2019—A Review

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2020
Tsetse transmitted trypanosomiasis is a fatal disease commonly known as Nagana in cattle and sleeping sickness in humans. The disease threatens food security and has severe economic impact in Africa including most parts of Zambia.
Gloria M. Mulenga, Lars Henning, Kalinga Chilongo, Chrisborn Mubamba, Boniface Namangala, Bruce Gummow   +5 more
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Pathogenicity and virulence of African trypanosomes: From laboratory models to clinically relevant hosts

Virulence, 2023
African trypanosomes are vector-borne protozoa, which cause significant human and animal disease across sub-Saharan Africa, and animal disease across Asia and South America.
Liam J. Morrison, Pieter C. Steketee, Mabel D. Tettey, Keith R. Matthews   +3 more
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