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Human African Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness): Current knowledge and future challenges
Frontiers in Tropical Diseases, 2023 According to both definitions of US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and World Health Organization, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are a group of preventable and treatable parasitic, viral, and bacterial diseases that affect more than one ...
Roberta Papagni +24 more
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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.
François Chappuis +2 more
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The History of Sleeping Sickness in the Sudan [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1960 (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) No abstract provided.
J.F.E. Bloss
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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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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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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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Molecular epidemiology of African sleeping sickness [PDF]
, 2009 Human sleeping sickness in Africa, caused by Trypanosoma brucei spp. raises a number of questions. Despite the widespread distribution of the tsetse vectors and animal trypanosomiasis, human disease is only found in discrete foci which periodically give ...
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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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