Discovery illuminates how sleeping sickness parasite outsmarts immune response
Using a mouse model, the researchers showed that Trypanosoma brucei essentially ... and goats, T. brucei infection can cause ...
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What to Know About African Sleeping Sickness
How quickly the disease progresses depends on the specific ... are West African sleeping sickness, caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, and East African sleeping sickness, caused by Trypanosoma ...
Structural insights reveal drug target in trypanosome parasites
Trypanosomes are parasites that cause sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and various animal diseases. Diagnosis and treatment remain complex and no effective vaccine has been developed. A better ...
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Guinea joins Ghana, Chad and others in the elimination of human African trypanosomiasis
Guinea has officially joined Ghana, Togo, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Equatorial Guinea, and Chad in eliminating human ...
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Guinea Eliminates Human African Trypanosomiasis As a Public Health Problem
There are two forms of the disease: one caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, found in 24 countries in West and Central Africa and which accounts for more than 92% of cases; and another caused ...
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WHO Delivers Safer Treatment for African Sleeping Sickness
In a major breakthrough for rhodesiense human African trypanosomiasis (r-HAT) treatment, in August 2024 WHO recommended fexinidazole to replace ...
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Parasitology research includes the biology, epidemiology and control of parasitic diseases of farmed livestock ... the mechanism whereby new strains of the human and cattle pathogens Trypanosoma ...
WHO Chief Congratulates Guinea For Eliminating Human Sleeping Sickness
( MENAFN - IANS) New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) World health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday congratulated Guinea for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis or ...