The Kinetoplastid Infections: Human African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness), American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease), and the Leishmaniases

2021 ◽  
pp. 111-142
Keyword(s):  
Chagas Disease ◽  
Human African Trypanosomiasis ◽  
Sleeping Sickness ◽  
African Trypanosomiasis ◽  
American Trypanosomiasis

Human African trypanosomiasis

2010 ◽  
pp. 1119-1127
Author(s):  
August Stich
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Trypanosoma Brucei ◽  
Human African Trypanosomiasis ◽  
Protozoan Parasite ◽  
Sleeping Sickness ◽  
Tsetse Flies ◽  
African Trypanosomiasis ◽  
Tropical Africa

Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT, sleeping sickness) is caused by two subspecies of the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei: T. b. rhodesiense is prevalent in East Africa among many wild and domestic mammals; T. b. gambiense causes an anthroponosis in Central and West Africa. The disease is restricted to tropical Africa where it is transmitted by the bite of infected tsetse flies (...

Thiazole, thio and semicarbazone derivatives against tropical infective diseases: Chagas disease, human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), leishmaniasis, and malaria

2019 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 378-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cauê Benito Scarim ◽  
Daniela Hartmann Jornada ◽  
Marcella Gabrielle Mendes Machado ◽  
Carla Maria Riberio Ferreira ◽  
Jean Leandro dos Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chagas Disease ◽  
Human African Trypanosomiasis ◽  
African Trypanosomiasis

scholarly journals Spatial Predictions of Rhodesian Human African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness) Prevalence in Kaberamaido and Dokolo, Two Newly Affected Districts of Uganda

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. e563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola A. Batchelor ◽  
Peter M. Atkinson ◽  
Peter W. Gething ◽  
Kim Picozzi ◽  
Eric M. Fèvre ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human African Trypanosomiasis ◽  
Sleeping Sickness ◽  
African Trypanosomiasis

scholarly journals Challenges towards the elimination of Human African Trypanosomiasis in the sleeping sickness focus of Campo in southern Cameroon

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustave Simo ◽  
Jean Mbida ◽  
Vincent Eyenga ◽  
Tazoacha Asonganyi ◽  
Flobert Njiokou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human African Trypanosomiasis ◽  
Sleeping Sickness ◽  
African Trypanosomiasis ◽  
Southern Cameroon

scholarly journals Second stage African Trypanosomiasis presented as Non Convulsive Status Epilepticus

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Etedal Ahmed A. Ibrahim ◽  
Mohammed Gasm Elseed M Elmahal ◽  
Khabab Abbasher Hussien Mohamed Ahmed ◽  
Mohammed Eltahier Abdalla Omer
Keyword(s):  
Status Epilepticus ◽  
Human African Trypanosomiasis ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
Sleeping Sickness ◽  
Common Disease ◽  
Convulsive Status Epilepticus ◽  
African Trypanosomiasis ◽  
Second Stage

Abstract Human African Trypanosomiasis also known as sleeping sickness is a common disease in South Sudan. There are two recognized sstage, The early hemolymphatic stage and The late encephalitic stage when the CNS is involved specially with Gambians infection, broad neurologic spectrum has been reported such as psychiatric, motor, sensory.

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