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Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on Knowledge Attitude and Practices on African Animal Trypanocide Resistance

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022
Background: African trypanocide resistance is an emerging public health emergency whose control requires a revisit on farmer’s knowledge, attitudes, and practices in developing countries.
Keneth Iceland Kasozi, Ewan Thomas MacLeod, Charles Waiswa, Michael Mahero, Ibrahim Ntulume, Susan Christina Welburn   +5 more
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Management of trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis [PDF]

, 2012
<p>Background: The current treatments for human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), Chagas disease and leishmaniasis (collectively referred to as the kinetoplastid diseases) are far from ideal but, for some, there has been significant recent progress ...
Alsford, Alvar, Alvar, Barrett, Barrett, Ben Salah, Berman, Bern, Brun, Brun, Burri, Chappuis, Coura, Croft, Croft, El-Sayed, Frearson, Hailu, Jacobs, Jacobs, Le Loup, Lessa, M. P. Barrett, Miranda-Verastegui, Paine, Pinazo, Priotto, Rassi, Reithinger, Rodgers, S. L. Croft, Stuart, Sundar, Sundar, Sundar, Sundar, Torreele, Vanhollebeke, Vincent, Voogd   +39 more
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APOL1 renal risk variants have contrasting resistance and susceptibility associations with African trypanosomiasis

eLife, 2017
Reduced susceptibility to infectious disease can increase the frequency of otherwise deleterious alleles. In populations of African ancestry, two apolipoprotein-L1 (APOL1) variants with a recessive kidney disease risk, named G1 and G2, occur at high ...
Anneli Cooper, Hamidou Ilboudo, V Pius Alibu, Sophie Ravel, John Enyaru, William Weir, Harry Noyes, Paul Capewell, Mamadou Camara, Jacqueline Milet, Vincent Jamonneau, Oumou Camara, Enock Matovu, Bruno Bucheton, Annette MacLeod   +14 more
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Insights from quantitative and mathematical modelling on the proposed 2030 goal for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT) [PDF]

, 2019
Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT) is a parasitic, vector-borne neglected tropical disease that has historically affected populations across West and Central Africa and can result in death if untreated.
Aliee, Maryam, Antillon, Marina, Chitnis, Nakul, Crump, Ronald E., Davis, Christopher, HASH(0x55cde5a53b80), Huang, Ching-I, Keeling, Matt J., Rock, Kat S., Soledad Castaño, María, Tediosi, Fabrizio   +10 more
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Breeding of African sheep reared under low-input/output smallholder production systems for trypanotolerance [PDF]

Veterinary World, 2022
Trypanosomiasis is a disease caused by unicellular protozoan parasites. Small ruminants succumb to trypanosomiasis in areas of high tsetse fly challenge, resulting in serious economic loss often to farmers in low-input smallholder systems.
Dikeledi P. Malatji
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Infections with extracellular trypanosomes require control by efficient innate immune mechanisms and can result in the destruction of the mammalian humoral immune system [PDF]

, 2020
Salivarian trypanosomes are extracellular parasites that affect humans, livestock, and game animals around the world. Through co-evolution with the mammalian immune system, trypanosomes have developed defense mechanisms that allow them to thrive in blood,
Magez, Stefan, Obishakin, Emmanuel Tumininu, Pinto Torres, Joar Esteban, Radwanska, Magdalena   +3 more
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MIF contributes to Trypanosoma brucei associated immunopathogenicity development [PDF]

, 2014
African trypanosomiasis is a chronic debilitating disease affecting the health and economic well-being of many people in developing countries. The pathogenicity associated with this disease involves a persistent inflammatory response, whereby M1-type ...
Beschin, Alain, Brys, Lea, Bucala, Richard, Caljon, Guy, De Baetselier, Patrick, Leng, Lin, Raes, Geert, Sparkes, Amanda, Stijlemans, Benoit, Van Den Abbeele, Jan, Van Ginderachter, Jo A, Vansintjan, Liese   +11 more
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African Trypanosomes undermine humoral responses and vaccine development : link with inflammatory responses? [PDF]

, 2017
African trypanosomosis is a debilitating disease of great medical and socioeconomical importance. It is caused by strictly extracellular protozoan parasites capable of infecting all vertebrate classes including human, livestock, and game animals.
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Human African Trypanosomiasis Transmission, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006
To investigate the epidemiology of human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2 entomologic surveys were conducted in 2005.
Gustave Simo, Philemon Mansinsa Diabakana, Victor Kande Betu Ku Mesu, Emile Zola Manzambi, Gaelle Ollivier, Tazoacha Asonganyi, Gerard Cuny, Pascal Grébaut   +7 more
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A doença de Chagas: repercussões de uma descoberta científica brasileira em Portugal, 1909-1924

Ler História, 2022
Currently, Chagas disease, or human American trypanosomiasis, affects around 900 people in Portugal, mostly Brazilian immigrants, the main foreign population residing in the country.
Ewerton Luiz Figueiredo Moura da Silva
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