Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 4 , Pages 263-268, July 2010

Time to put out the lights on sleeping sickness?

  • Camus Nimmo

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University College London Medical School, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK

Received 30 November 2009; received in revised form 29 April 2010; accepted 5 May 2010. published online 03 June 2010.

Summary 

Sleeping sickness (or Human African Trypanosomiasis, HAT) is a potentially fatal parasitic disease that affects a large proportion of sub-Saharan Africa. It was epidemic in the early 20th century before being nearly eradicated through a variety of control programmes. Despite this, there was a resurgence in the 1980s and 90s following relaxation of these programmes. Recent advances are reversing this trend once more. However, more research is required to improve diagnosis and treatment, and to better understand the epidemiology of HAT if complete eradication is to be achieved in the future.

Keywords: Human African trypanosomiasis, Control, Eradication

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PII: S1477-8939(10)00066-9

doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2010.05.001

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume 8, Issue 4 , Pages 263-268, July 2010

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