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Sleeping sickness is a circadian disorder [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 African sleeping sickness is well known for the alterations of sleeping patterns, but it is not known how circadian biology is altered by the causative pathogen Trypanosoma brucei. Here the authors show T.
Filipa Rijo-Ferreira +2 more
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Sleeping Sickness at the Crossroads [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2020 Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT; sleeping sickness) is a disease with truly historic dimensions [...]
Christian Burri
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Sleeping Sickness: A Tale of Two Clocks [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2020 Sleeping sickness is caused by a eukaryotic unicellular parasite known to infect wild animals, cattle, and humans. It causes a fatal disease that disrupts many rhythmic physiological processes, including daily rhythms of hormonal secretion, temperature ...
Filipa Rijo-Ferreira +3 more
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The Drugs of Sleeping Sickness: Their Mechanisms of Action and Resistance, and a Brief History [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2020 With the incidence of sleeping sickness in decline and genuine progress being made towards the WHO goal of eliminating sleeping sickness as a major public health concern, this is a good moment to evaluate the drugs that ‘got the job done’ ...
Harry P. De Koning
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Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2011 Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, is a vector-borne disease that flourishes in impoverished, rural parts of sub-Saharan Africa. It is caused by infection with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei and is transmitted by tsetse flies of the genus Glossina. The majority of cases are caused by T. b.
Malvy, D, Chappuis, François
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Covid-19: Medicine and Colonialism, Past and Present
Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 2022 This essay begins in the past, with the hope of developing a different way of thinking through the transformations of the present. Many commentators and media outlets have referred to the era of the Covid-19 pandemic as ‘unprecedented’, but there is ...
Toby Green
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2020 Background: The World Health Organization aims for the elimination of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) as a public health problem by 2020 and for full elimination (absence of new cases) by 2030.
Matthieu Nkieri +6 more
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African sleeping sickness [PDF]
BMJ, 2008 Eflornithine should be the drug of choice for stage 2 disease, but resistance must be ...
Checchi, Francesco, Barrett, Michael P
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Parasite Epidemiology and Control, 2020 Elimination of sleeping sickness from endemic countries like Uganda is key if the affected communities are to exploit the potential of the available human and livestock resources (production and productivity). Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, the parasite
C. Waiswa +4 more
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Should I get screened for sleeping sickness? A qualitative study in Kasai province, Democratic Republic of Congo. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012 BACKGROUND: Control of human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) in the Democratic Republic of Congo is based on mass population active screening by mobile teams.
Alain Mpanya +11 more
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