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Epidemiology of human African trypanosomiasis [PDF]

Clinical Epidemiology, 2014
Jose R Franco,1 Pere P Simarro,1 Abdoulaye Diarra,2 Jean G Jannin1 1World Health Organization, Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, Innovative and Intensified Disease Management, Geneva, Switzerland; 2World Health Organization, Inter Country Support ...
Franco JR, Simarro PP, Diarra A, Jannin JG   +3 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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Accuracy of five algorithms to diagnose gambiense human African trypanosomiasis. [PDF]

, 2011
Algorithms to diagnose gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT, sleeping sickness) are often complex due to the unsatisfactory sensitivity and/or specificity of available tests, and typically include a screening (serological), confirmation ...
Francesco Checchi, Gerardo Priotto, Daniel Chandramohan, Checchi Francesco, Unni Karunakara, Priotto Gerardo, Checchi, F, Priotto, Gerardo, Priotto, G, Checchi, Francesco, Chappuis, F, Chandramohan, D, Chandramohan, Daniel, Karunakara Unni, François Chappuis, Karunakara, U, Karunakara, Unni, Chappuis, François, Chappuis François, Chandramohan Daniel   +19 more
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Transmission concomitante de trypanosomose humaine et animale : le foyer de Mandoul au Tchad

Revue d’Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, 2014
La trypanosomose est une maladie qui affecte à la fois l’homme et les animaux. Elle est provoquée par Trypanosoma sp. et cycliquement transmise par un vecteur, la glossine.
Peka Mallaye, L. Kohagne Tongué, N. Ndeledje, F. J. Louis, H. Mahamat Hassane   +4 more
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African trypanosomiasis in travelers returning to the United Kingdom. [PDF]

, 2002
Two returning safari tourists with African trypanosomiasis were admitted to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, in a 3-day period, compared with six cases in the previous 14 years.
Bailey, J Wendi, Peter L Chiodini, Squire, S Bertel, Edwards, Mark, Squire, Bertie, Wendi Bailey, J., Moore, David A.J., Chiodini, Peter L, Dan Agranoff, Rod Escombe, S. Bertel Squire, Moore, David AJ, David A.J. Moore, Escombe, Rod, Chiodini, Peter L., J. Wendi Bailey, Mark Edwards, Agranoff, Dan   +17 more
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Identification of sVSG117 as an immunodiagnostic antigen and evaluation of a dual-antigen lateral flow test for the diagnosis of human african trypanosomiasis [PDF]

, 2014
The diagnosis of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense relies mainly on the Card Agglutination Test for Trypanosomiasis (CATT). There is no immunodiagnostic for HAT caused by T. b. rhodesiense.
Sastry Lalitha, Lalitha Sastry, Lauren Sullivan, Sullivan Lauren, Ferguson, Michael A J; id_orcid, Fleming Jennifer, Steven J Wall, Sullivan, Lauren, Fleming, Jennifer, Angela Mehlert, Michael A J Ferguson, Mehlert Angela, Sastry, Lalitha, Wall, Steven J., Jennifer Fleming, Ferguson Michael A. J., Ferguson, Michael A. J., Wall, Steven J, Wall Steven J., Fleming, Jennifer R., Mehlert, Angela   +20 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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