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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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Resolving the apparent transmission paradox of African sleeping sickness. [PDF]
PLoS Biol, 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 ...
Capewell P +12 more
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Reanalyzing the 1900–1920 Sleeping Sickness Epidemic in Uganda [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004 Sleeping sickness has long been a major public health problem in Uganda. From 1900 to 1920, more than 250,000 people died in an epidemic that affected the southern part of the country, particularly the Busoga region.
E.M. Fèvre +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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Xenomonitoring of sleeping sickness transmission in Campo (Cameroon) [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2016 Background: The sleeping sickness focus of Campo in South Cameroon is still active, at a low endemic level, for more than a century, despite a regular medical surveillance.
Eyenga, V. E. +7 more
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eLife, 2016 Trypanosome parasites are hiding in human skin, a discovery that may undermine efforts to eliminate sleeping sickness by 2020.
Aitor Casas-Sánchez +1 more
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Quantifying the burden of rhodesiense sleeping sickness in Urambo district, Tanzania [PDF]
, 2010 Sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis - HAT) is a disease transmitted by tsetse flies and is always fatal if left untreated. The disease occurs in foci affecting poor communities with limited access to health service provision and as such the ...
A Moore +43 more
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Parasites & Vectors, 2014 The sleeping sickness focus of Campo lies along the Atlantic coast and extends along the Ntem River, which constitutes the Cameroonian and Equatorial Guinean border.
Gustave Simo +5 more
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NOTE ON THE ETIOLOGY OF THE SLEEPING SICKNESS. [PDF]
The Lancet, 1903 n ...
Annibal Bettencourt +3 more
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