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We Remember… Elders' Memories and Perceptions of Sleeping Sickness Control Interventions in West Nile, Uganda. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016 The traditional role of African elders and their connection with the community make them important stakeholders in community-based disease control programmes.
Vanja Kovacic +6 more
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mSphere, 2021 Sleeping sickness is a neglected tropical disease caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma bruceiT ...
Daniel E. Vélez-Ramírez +9 more
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Spatial Analysis of Sleeping Sickness, Southeastern Uganda, 1970–2003
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006 Sleeping sickness reemerged in southeastern Uganda in the 1970s and remains a public health problem. It has continued to spread north into new districts, and gaps remain in the understanding of the causes of its spread and distribution.
Lea Berrang-Ford +4 more
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Civil conflict and sleeping sickness in Africa in general and Uganda in particular
Conflict and Health, 2007 Conflict and war have long been recognized as determinants of infectious disease risk. Re-emergence of epidemic sleeping sickness in sub-Saharan Africa since the 1970s has coincided with extensive civil conflict in affected regions.
Berrang Ford Lea
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Diagnostic accuracy of PCR in gambiense sleeping sickness diagnosis, staging and post-treatment follow-up: a 2-year longitudinal study. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2011 BACKGROUND:The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been proposed for diagnosis, staging and post-treatment follow-up of sleeping sickness but no large-scale clinical evaluations of its diagnostic accuracy have taken place yet.
Stijn Deborggraeve +7 more
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Conflict and Health, 2017 Background Ensuring equity between forcibly-displaced and host area populations is a key challenge for global elimination programmes. We studied Uganda’s response to the recent refugee influx from South Sudan to identify key governance and operational ...
Jennifer J. Palmer +2 more
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Late stage infection in sleeping sickness. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 At the turn of the 19(th) century, trypanosomes were identified as the causative agent of sleeping sickness and their presence within the cerebrospinal fluid of late stage sleeping sickness patients was described.
Hartwig Wolburg +10 more
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The dispersal ecology of Rhodesian sleeping sickness following its introduction to a new area.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2013 Tsetse-transmitted human and animal trypanosomiasis are constraints to both human and animal health in sub-Saharan Africa, and although these diseases have been known for over a century, there is little recent evidence demonstrating how the parasites ...
Nicola A Wardrop +3 more
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Understanding sleeping sickness [PDF]
Nature Methods, 2011 High-coverage sequencing of RNA interference targets gives insight into parasite phenotypes.
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Transmission of human African trypanosomiasis in the Komo-Mondah focus, Gabon
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2011 BACKGROUND: Knowledge about transmission of sleeping sickness in a given focus is of a great importance since it governs the efficacy and the cost-effectiveness of control strategy.
Lisette Kohagne Tongué +5 more
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