This report provides information about new diagnostic approaches, new therapeutic
regimens and better understanding of the distribution of the disease with high-quality …

A World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on the control and surveillance of
human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) met in Geneva, Switzerland, from 22 to 26 April 2013 …

This book provides a state-of-the-art review of what is currently known about African
trypanosomiasis and the measures available for its treatment, surveillance, and control …

The natural history of sleeping sickness is cyclic. The first epidemic outbreak in the 19th
century devastated the population and resolved spontaneously for lack of victims. Intensive …

Following the description of the disease, and diagnostic tools and drugs that have been
used, and are still in use today, the authors show how it has influenced over time the …

Presents the findings and recommendations of an expert committee convened to evaluate
current control methods for African human trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, a disease …

The explosive increase in the prevalence of human African trypanosomiasis at the
beginning of the 20th century is one of the best examples of an emerging infection. Human …

PIP: Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) is a parasitic disease caused by
two different trypanosome subspecies, Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and Tb …

The last two comprehensive reviews on treatment of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT)
were published in 1970 and 1980 (Apted, 1970a, 1980). Since then, there have been at last …

Epidemics of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) in the twentieth century led to millions of
deaths. However, since the start of the twenty-first century, there has been a continued …