An update on African trypanocide pharmaceutics and resistance

KI Kasozi, ET MacLeod, I Ntulume… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
African trypanosomiasis is associated with Trypanosoma evansi, T. vivax, T. congolense,
and T. brucei pathogens in African animal trypanosomiasis (AAT) while T. b gambiense and …

Current treatments to control African trypanosomiasis and one health perspective

A Venturelli, L Tagliazucchi, C Lima, F Venuti… - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT, sleeping sickness) and Animal African
Trypanosomiasis (AAT) are neglected tropical diseases generally caused by the same …

Pathogenicity and virulence of African trypanosomes: From laboratory models to clinically relevant hosts

LJ Morrison, PC Steketee, MD Tettey, KR Matthews - Virulence, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
African trypanosomes are vector-borne protozoa, which cause significant human and animal
disease across sub-Saharan Africa, and animal disease across Asia and South America. In …

Applications and advances in acoustic monitoring for infectious disease epidemiology

E Johnson, M Campos-Cerqueira, A Jumail… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
Emerging infectious diseases continue to pose a significant burden on global public health,
and there is a critical need to better understand transmission dynamics arising at the …

Both full-length and protease-cleaved products of osteopontin are elevated in infectious diseases

T Hattori, H Iwasaki-Hozumi, G Bai, H Chagan-Yasutan… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Circulating full-length osteopontin (FL-OPN) is elevated in plasma from patients with various
infectious diseases, such as adult T-cell leukemia, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) …

Detrimental Effect of Trypanosoma brucei brucei Infection on Memory B Cells and Host Ability to Recall Protective B-cell Responses

S Moon, I Janssens, KH Kim… - The Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Trypanosoma brucei brucei evades host immune responses by multiple means,
including the disruption of B-cell homeostasis. This hampers anti-trypanosome vaccine …

Towards global control of parasitic diseases in the Covid-19 era: One Health and the future of multisectoral global health governance

L Ung, JR Stothard, R Phalkey, AS Azman… - Advances in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Human parasitic infections—including malaria, and many neglected tropical diseases
(NTDs)—have long represented a Gordian knot in global public health: ancient, persistent …

Parasite co-infection: an ecological, molecular and experimental perspective

F Venter, KR Matthews… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Laboratory studies of pathogens aim to limit complexity in order to disentangle the important
parameters contributing to an infection. However, pathogens rarely exist in isolation, and …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs): potential therapeutic strategy against trypanosomiases?

M Rojas-Pirela, U Kemmerling, W Quiñones… - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Trypanosomiases are a group of tropical diseases that have devastating health and socio-
economic effects worldwide. In humans, these diseases are caused by the pathogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Nucleoside analogues for the treatment of animal trypanosomiasis

D Mabille, K Ilbeigi, S Hendrickx, MA Ungogo… - International Journal for …, 2022 - Elsevier
Animal trypanosomiasis (AT) is a parasitic disease with high socio-economic impact. Given
the limited therapeutic options and problems of toxicity and drug resistance, this study …