For those with sleeping sickness, the consequences of delayed diagnosis include poor prognosis at treatment and an increased risk of tsetse infection. Data on their socio–demographic and clinical characteristics, health-seeking behaviour and delays in presentation and diagnosis were collected fro...
Odiit, M.
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Shaw, Alison
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Welburn, S.C.
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Fèvre, Eric M.
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Coleman, P.G.
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McDermott, John J.
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[Assessing the patterns of health-seeking behaviour and awareness among sleeping-sickness patients in eastern Uganda]
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Assessing the patterns of health-seeking behaviour and awareness among sleeping-sickness patients in eastern Uganda
This paper is a review of the meeting "Sleeping Sickness Rediscovered". The meeting focussed on human sleeping sickness, which, despite improvements in diagnosis and control has returned with a vengeance across central Africa. Topics of discussion include control activities; control tools; resear...
Background: The expansion of sleeping sickness caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (T. rhodesiense) beyond its traditional focus in southeast Uganda, has been linked with large-scale livestock restocking. To assess the risk presented to the human population by domestic livestock, human-infe...
Welburn, S.C.
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Picozzi, K.
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Fèvre, Eric M.
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Coleman, P.G.
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Odiit, M.
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Carrington, M.
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Maudlin, I.
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[Identification of human-infective trypanosomes in animal reservoir of sleeping sickness in Uganda by means of serum-resistance-associated (SRA) gene]
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Identification of human-infective trypanosomes in animal reservoir of sleeping sickness in Uganda by means of serum-resistance-associated (SRA) gene