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Screening strategies for a sustainable endpoint for Gambiense sleeping sickness [PDF]
, 2020 Background. Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT, sleeping sickness) is a vector-borne disease typically fatal without treatment. Intensified, mainly medical-based, interventions in endemic areas have reduced the occurrence of gHAT to ...
Aliee, Maryam +5 more
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BMC Microbiology, 2018 Background Tsetse flies are vectors of trypanosomes, parasites that cause devastating disease in humans and livestock. In the course of vector control programmes it is necessary to know about the Glossina species present in the study area, the population
Stephen Saikiu Shaida +9 more
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Trypanocidal and leishmanicidal activity of six limonoids [PDF]
, 2020 Six limonoids [kotschyienone A and B (1, 2), 7-deacetylgedunin (3), 7-deacetyl-7-oxogedunin (4), andirobin (5) and methyl angolensate (6)] were investigated for their trypanocidal and leishmanicidal activities using bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma ...
A-E Hay +30 more
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A study of genetic markers in the South African Blesbok (Damaliscus Dorcas Phillipsi)
Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 1972 During culling operations on blesbok from the Rietvlei Nature Reserve, 198 blood samples were obtained for study of genetic markers including haemoglobins, transferrins, amylases, albumins and carbonic anhydrases.
D. R Osterhoff +2 more
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Tsetse and Trypanosomoses in Ghana in the Twentieth Century: a Review
Revue d’Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, 2003 African animal trypanosomosis, transmitted by tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) is a major constraint limiting the optimal utilization of land for agricultural production in tsetse-infested areas of Ghana.
C. Mahama +5 more
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, 2023 Trypanosomatidae ailesinden protozoonlarının neden olduğu Afrika (uyku hastalığı) ve Amerika (Chagas hastalığı) trypanosomiasis hastalıkları, sırasıyla Afrika ve Latin Amerika'nın bazı bölgelerinde endemik olarak görülmektedir.
YILDIRIM, Ahmet, Tülay, AKSOY.
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Spatially and genetically distinct African trypanosome virulence variants defined by host interferon-g response [PDF]
, 2007 We describe 2 spatially distinct foci of human African trypansomiasis in eastern Uganda. The Tororo and Soroti foci of <i>Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense</i> infection were genetically distinct as characterized by 6 microsatellite and 1 ...
Anneli Cooper +19 more
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Pastoralism, 2017 This paper presents an in-depth investigation of the livelihood strategies of Fulani pastoralists in north central Nigeria. Results show a diversified crop-livestock system aimed at spreading risk and reducing cattle offtake, adapted to natural resource ...
Ayodele O. Majekodunmi +4 more
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Pharmaceuticals, 2022 Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT or ‘sleeping sickness’) is a neglected tropical disease. If untreated, it is always fatal and leads to death. A few treatments are available for HAT, but most of them require a skilled professional, which increases the ...
Mohd Imran +9 more
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Delineating neuroinflammation, parasite CNS invasion, and blood-brain barrier dysfunction in an experimental murine model of human African trypanosomiasis [PDF]
, 2017 Although Trypanosoma brucei spp. was first detected by Aldo Castellani in CSF samples taken from sleeping sickness patients over a century ago there is still a great deal of debate surrounding the timing, route and effects of transmigration of the ...
Bradley, Barbara +2 more
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