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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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Safety, pharmacokinetic, and efficacy studies of oral DB868 in a first stage vervet monkey model of human African trypanosomiasis [PDF]

, 2013
There are no oral drugs for human African trypanosomiasis (HAT, sleeping sickness). A successful oral drug would have the potential to reduce or eliminate the need for patient hospitalization, thus reducing healthcare costs of HAT.
Arlene S. Bridges (301008), Shelley Ching, Bridges, Arlene S., Raymond E Mdachi, Brun Reto, Wang Michael Zhuo, Wang, Michael Zhuo, Wolf, Kristina K., Ching, Shelley, Arlene S Bridges, Mutuku James N., Murilla, Grace A., Paine, Mary F., Boykin, David W., James N Mutuku, Richard R Tidwell, Mohamed A Ismail, John K. Thuita (148377), Liu, Qiang, Tidwell, Richard R., Hall, James E., Mary F. Paine (148396), John K Thuita, Bridges Arlene S., Ismail Mohamed A., Mdachi, Raymond E., Qiang Liu (166143), Mdachi Raymond E., David W. Boykin (148406), Reto Brun, Reto Brun (41511), Ching Shelley, Hall, James Edwin, Shelley Ching (148404), Tidwell Richard R., Chen, Yao, Mohamed A. Ismail (418629), Boykin David W., Mutuku, James N., James Edwin Hall, Qiang Liu, Grace A Murilla, Hall James Edwin, Raymond E. Mdachi (148398), Mary F Paine, Liu Qiang, Kristina K. Wolf (418627), Michael Zhuo Wang, Thutia, John K., David W Boykin, Yao Chen (149006), Grace A. Murilla (148401), Ismail, Mohamed A., Michael Zhuo Wang (418631), Murilla Grace A., Wolf Kristina K., Kristina K Wolf, James Edwin Hall (418630), Thuita John K., James N. Mutuku (418628), Brun, Reto, Yao Chen, Thuita, John K., Richard R. Tidwell (148409), Paine Mary F., Chen Yao   +65 more
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Pharmacological investigations on current and new drugs for treatment of human African trypanosomiasis [PDF]

, 1999
Trypanosomiasis remains a major threat to humans in sub-Saharan Africa with 55-60 million people in 36 countries at risk of infection with T.b. gambiense or T.b. rhodesiense.
Keiser, Jennifer
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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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Improvements on Restricted Insecticide Application Protocol for Control of Human and Animal African Trypanosomiasis in Eastern Uganda [PDF]

, 2014
African trypanosomes constrain livestock and human health in Sub-Saharan Africa, and aggravate poverty and hunger of these otherwise largely livestock-keeping communities. To solve this, there is need to develop and use effective and cheap tsetse control
Jan Hatendorf (651760), John David Kabasa (651762), Kabasa, John David, Charles Waiswa (236117), John David Kabasa, Charles Waiswa, Hatendorf Jan, Thrusfield Michael, Muhanguzi Dennis, Susan Christina Welburn, Welburn Susan Christina, Picozzi, Kim, Waiswa, Charles, Susan Christina Welburn (573233), Jan Hatendorf, Dennis Muhanguzi, Michael Thrusfield (651761), Kabasa John David, Hattendorf, Jan, Thrusfield, Michael, Welburn, Susan Christina, Waiswa Charles, Muhanguzi, Dennis, Michael Thrusfield, Kim Picozzi (77649), Dennis Muhanguzi (651759), Hatendorf, Jan, Kim Picozzi, Picozzi Kim   +28 more
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Morphometric diagnosis of Glossina palpalis (Diptera: Glossinidae) population structure in Ghana

BMC Research Notes, 2017
Objective This study aimed to identify isolated population(s) of Glossina palpalis in Ghana using geometric morphometrics to evaluate variations in wing-shape and size between populations of the fly from three regions. Results Wing shape of G.
Faith Ebhodaghe, Maxwell Kelvin Billah, Delphina Adabie-Gomez, Adam Yahaya   +3 more
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Trypanosomiasis vector control in Africa and Latin America. [PDF]

, 2008
Vectors of trypanosomiasis - tsetse (Glossinidae) in Africa, kissing-bugs (Triatominae) in Latin America - are very different insects but share demographic characteristics that render them highly vulnerable to available control methods.
Schofield, Chris J, Kabayo, John P, Schofield Chris J, Kabayo John P   +3 more
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Trypanosoma brucei Tim50 Possesses PAP Activity and Plays a Critical Role in Cell Cycle Regulation and Parasite Infectivity

mBio, 2021
African trypanosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by the parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma bruceiT.
Anuj Tripathi, Ujjal K. Singha, Ayorinde Cooley, Taneisha Gillyard, Evan Krystofiak, Siddharth Pratap, Jamaine Davis, Minu Chaudhuri   +7 more
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Chemotherapy of second stage human African trypanosomiasis : comparison between the parenteral diamidine DB829 and its oral prodrug DB868 in vervet monkeys [PDF]

, 2015
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT, sleeping sickness) ranks among the most neglected tropical diseases based on limited availability of drugs that are safe and efficacious, particularly against the second stage (central nervous system [CNS]) of ...
Wang, Michael Z., Shelley Ching, Bridges, Arlene S., Bridges, Arlene S, Wang, Michael Z, Gem, Charles O, Michael Z Wang, Wolf, Kristina K, Wang, Michael Zhuo, Wolf, Kristina K., Ching, Shelley, Mutuku, James N., Arlene S Bridges, Boykin, David W, Murilla, Grace A, Murilla, Grace A., Qiang Liu, Paine, Mary F., Boykin, David W., Grace A Murilla, Jones, Susan K, Charles O Gem, James N Mutuku, Mary F Paine, Susan K Jones, Richard R Tidwell, Mutuku, James N, Paine, Mary F, David W Boykin, Liu, Qiang, Tidwell, Richard R., John K Thuita, Gem, Charles O., Kristina K Wolf, Jones, Susan K., Brun, Reto, Thuita, John K., Boykin, David, Reto Brun, Piane, Mary F., Tidwell, Richard R, Thuita, John K   +41 more
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