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Interventions for Neglected Diseases Caused by Kinetoplastid Parasites: A One Health Approach to Drug Discovery, Development, and Deployment

Pharmaceuticals
Kinetoplastids are protozoa that possess a unique organelle called a kinetoplast. These include the parasites Trypanosoma cruzi, T. brucei and related African trypanosomes, and Leishmania spp.
Godwin U. Ebiloma, Amani Alhejeli, Harry P. de Koning   +2 more
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Resolving the apparent transmission paradox of African sleeping sickness.

PLoS Biology, 2019
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or African sleeping sickness, is a fatal disease found throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The disease is close to elimination in many areas, although it was similarly close to elimination once before and subsequently ...
Paul Capewell, Katie Atkins, William Weir, Vincent Jamonneau, Mamadou Camara, Caroline Clucas, Nono-Raymond K Swar, Dieudonne M Ngoyi, Brice Rotureau, Paul Garside, Alison P Galvani, Bruno Bucheton, Annette MacLeod   +12 more
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A meta-analysis of the prevalence of African animal trypanosomiasis in Nigeria from 1960 to 2017

Parasites & Vectors, 2018
African animal trypanosomiasis is an economically significant disease that affects the livestock industry in Nigeria. It is caused by several parasites of the genus Trypanosoma.
P. O. Odeniran, I. O. Ademola
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In-hospital safety in field conditions of Nifurtimox Eflornithine Combination Therapy (NECT) for T. B. Gambiense Sleeping Sickness [PDF]

, 2012
Trypanosoma brucei (T.b.) gambiense Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT; sleeping sickness) is a fatal disease. Until 2009, available treatments for 2(nd) stage HAT were complicated to use, expensive (eflornithine monotherapy), or toxic, and ...
Kisala, M, Schmid, C., Kisala, M., Mordt, O. V., Ismael Lumpungu, Mutanda, S, Mays Kisala, Kande, V, Nganzobo Pathou, Kuemmerle Andrea, Blum Johannes, Medard Ilunga, Nono Mubwa, Lumpungu Ismael, Mubwa Nono, Mordt Olaf Valverde, Schmid Caecilia, Mubwa, N, Blesson Severine, Wilfried Mutombo, Nganzobo, P., Mutombo Wilfried, Victor Kande, Mordt, O V, Tete Digas, Tete, D, Blesson, S, Kümmerle, A., Ilunga Medard, Schmid, C, Ilunga, M., Kuemmerle, A, Sylvain Mutanda, Ghabri, S, Ghabri, S., Andrea Kuemmerle, Lumpungu, I, Salah Ghabri, Kande, V., Johannes Blum, Lumpungu, I., Ghabri Salah, Blum, J, Digas Tete, Mubwa, N., Mutanda, S., Pathou Nganzobo, Ilunga, M, Caecilia Schmid, Tete, D., Nganzobo, P, Blum, J., Mutombo, W., Mutanda Sylvain, Kisala Mays, Blésson, S., Olaf Valverde Mordt, Severine Blesson, Kande Victor, Mutombo, W   +59 more
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Serological tests for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis detect antibodies in cattle

Parasites & Vectors, 2017
Background Serological tests for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT) detect antibodies to antigens on the cell surface of bloodstream trypanosomes.
Enock Matovu, Annah Kitibwa, Albert Picado, Sylvain Biéler, Paul R. Bessell, Joseph Mathu Ndung’u   +5 more
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Efficacy, safety, and dose of Pafuramidine, a new oral drug for treatment of first stage sleeping sickness, in a phase 2a clinical study and phase 2b randomized clinical studies [PDF]

, 2016
Sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis [HAT]) is caused by protozoan parasites and characterized by a chronic progressive course, which may last up to several years before death.
Carol A. Olson (1807531), Patrick D Yeramian, Bilenge, Constantin Miaka Mia, Pascal Lutumba, Manuel, F, Sonja C Bernhard, Allen, James L., Mpanya, Alain, Alain Mpanya, Blum, Johannes, Lubaki, J P, Richard R Tidwell, Gabriele Pohlig, Constantin Miaka Mia Bilenge, Yeramian, Patrick D., Kazadi Kyanza Serge, Tidwell, R R, Thompson, Mark, Alfred Mpoo Mpoto, Bernhard, Sonja C., Tidwell, Richard R., Christian Burri (141244), Carol A Olson, Sonja C. Bernhard (1807537), Blaise Fungula Munungu, Bernhard, S C, James L Allen, Burri, Christian, Munungu, Blaise Fungula, Olson, Carol A., Francisco Manuel (1807528), Victor Kande Betu Ku Mesu, Constantin Miaka Mia Bilenge (1807513), Lutumba, P, Pohlig, G, Mark Thompson, Francisco Manuel, Blaise Fungula Munungu (1807519), Merolle, Ada, Lutumba, Pascal, Ada Merolle, Mpoto, Alfred Mpoo, Mesu, V K, Christian Burri, Jean-Pierre Fina Lubaki (1807546), Allen, J L, Josenando, Théophilo, Ada Merolle (1807540), Johannes Blum, Josenando, T, Lubaki, Jean-Pierre Fina, Gabriele Pohlig (267149), Pohlig, Gabriele, Bilenge, C M, Blum, J, Manuel, Francisco, Merolle, A, Mesu, Victor Kande Betu Ku, Yeramian, P D, Alfred Mpoo Mpoto (1807534), Serge, K K, Munungu, B F, Alain Mpanya (267142), Mark Thompson (533940), James L. Allen (1807522), Olson, C A, Johannes Blum (141240), Mpoto, A M, Victor Kande Betu Ku Mesu (1807510), Théophilo Josenando (1807516), Mpanya, A, Thompson, M, Patrick D. Yeramian (1807543), Richard R. Tidwell (148409), Théophilo Josenando, Burri, C, Jean-Pierre Fina Lubaki, Serge, Kazadi Kyanza, Kazadi Kyanza Serge (1807525), Pascal Lutumba (116142)   +79 more
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Prevalence of Sodalis glossinidius and different trypanosome species in Glossina palpalis palpalis caught in the Fontem sleeping sickness focus of the southern Cameroon

Parasite, 2018
Tsetse flies are the cyclical vector of human and animal African trypanosomiasis. To improve vector control in order to achieve the elimination of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) and boost the control of animal diseases, investigations have been ...
Kanté Tagueu Sartrien, Farikou Oumarou, Njiokou Flobert, Simo Gustave   +3 more
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The elimination of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense? Challenges of reservoir hosts and transmission cycles: Expect the unexpected

Parasite Epidemiology and Control, 2019
The World Health Organisation has set the goal for elimination of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (gHAT), as a public health problem for 2020 and for the total interruption of transmission to humans for 2030 ...
D. Mehlitz, D.H. Molyneux
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The genome sequence of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, causative agent of chronic Human African Trypanosomiasis [PDF]

, 2010
<p><b>Background:</b> <i>Trypanosoma brucei gambiense</i> is the causative agent of chronic Human African Trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness, a disease endemic across often poor and rural areas of Western and Central ...
Martin A Aslett, Hertz-Fowler Christiane, Chukualim, B., Gibson, W., Melville, S.E., Jackson Andrew P., Jackson, A.P., Jackson, A., Capewell, P., Sanders Mandy, Annette MacLeod, McQuillan, J, Quail, M.A., MacLeod Annette, Melville Sara E., Melville, S., McQuillan, J., Paul Capewell, Aslett Martin A., Bridget Chukualim, MacLeod, A., Aslett, M., Hertz-Fowler, C., McQuillan Jacqueline, Aslett, M.A., Mandy Sanders, Berry Andrew, Michael A Quail, Barry, J.D., Berriman, M., Sanders, M., Wendy Gibson, Sara E Melville, Jacqueline McQuillan, Gibson, WC, Quail Michael A., Berry, A., J David Barry, Andrew P Jackson, Andrew Berry, Christiane Hertz-Fowler, Matthew Berriman, Chukualim Bridget, Gibson Wendy, Barry J. David, Capewell Paul, Berriman Matthew   +46 more
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Bold strides towards the elimination of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT) as a public health problem-A case study of Angola.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
BackgroundThe chronic form of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and commonly referred to as gambiense-HAT (gHAT) is endemic in 7 of Angola's 18 provinces.
Johnson O Ouma, Simon Kayembe, Paul R Bessell, Don Paul Makana, Amadeu D C P Dala, Luis Baião Peliganga, Joseph M Ndung'u, Constantina P F Machado   +7 more
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