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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Experiences of the one-health approach by the Uganda Trypanosomiasis Control Council and its secretariat in the control of zoonotic sleeping sickness in Uganda [PDF]
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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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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Tsetse elimination: its interest and feasibility in the historical sleeping sickness focus of Loos islands, Guinea [PDF]
Parasite, 2009 Guinea is the West African country which is currently the most prevalent for sleeping sickness. The littoral area is the region where most of the recent sleeping sickness cases have been described, especially the mangrove sleeping sickness foci of ...
Kagbadouno M. +8 more
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Identification of Trypanosome proteins in plasma from African sleeping sickness patients infected with T. b. rhodesiense. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Control of human African sleeping sickness, caused by subspecies of the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei, is based on preventing transmission by elimination of the tsetse vector and by active diagnostic screening and treatment of infected patients ...
Brett A Eyford +4 more
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Insights from aquaporin structures into drug-resistant sleeping sickness. [PDF]
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The cost of tsetse control using 'Tiny Targets' in the sleeping sickness endemic forest area of Bonon in Côte d'Ivoire: Implications for comparing costs across different settings. [PDF]
PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2022 Courtin F +5 more
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