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Sleeping sickness [PDF]

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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Apolipoprotein-L1 (APOL1): From Sleeping Sickness to Kidney Disease. [PDF]

Cells
Pays E.
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Estimating the impact of Tiny Targets in reducing the incidence of Gambian sleeping sickness in the North-west Uganda focus. [PDF]

Parasit Vectors, 2021
Bessell PR, Esterhuizen J, Lehane MJ, Longbottom J, Mugenyi A, Selby R, Tirados I, Torr SJ, Waiswa C, Wamboga C, Hope A.   +10 more
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Zinc(II) Complex with Pyrazolone-Based Hydrazones is Strongly Effective against Trypanosoma brucei Which Causes African Sleeping Sickness. [PDF]

Inorg Chem, 2022
Marchetti F, Tombesi A, Di Nicola C, Pettinari R, Verdicchio F, Crispini A, Scarpelli F, Baldassarri C, Marangoni E, Hofer A, Galindo A, Petrelli R.   +11 more
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Modelling to explore the potential impact of asymptomatic human infections on transmission and dynamics of African sleeping sickness. [PDF]

PLoS Comput Biol, 2021
Aliee M, Keeling MJ, Rock KS.
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Limited impact of vector control on the population genetic structure of Glossina fuscipes fuscipes from the sleeping sickness focus of Maro, Chad. [PDF]

Parasite
Ravel S, Ségard A, Mollo BG, Mahamat MH, Argiles-Herrero R, Bouyer J, Rayaisse JB, Solano P, Pèka M, Darnas J, Belem AMG, Yoni W, Noûs C, de Meeûs T.   +13 more
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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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An Active Follow-up Strategy for Serological Suspects of Human African Trypanosomiasis with Negative Parasitology Set up by a Health Zone Team in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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, Florent Mbo, Papy Kavunga, Pathou Nganzobo, Titus Mafolo, Chalet Selego, Eric Mwamba Miaka   +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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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, David Hendrickx, Mimy Vuna, Albert Kanyinda, Crispin Lumbala, Valéry Tshilombo, Patrick Mitashi, Oscar Luboya, Victor Kande, Marleen Boelaert, Pierre Lefèvre, Pascal Lutumba   +11 more
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