Recommendations for control of East African sleeping sickness in Uganda

East African sleeping sickness in Chennai.

A traveler to East Africa developed fever, an eschar on his forearm and thrombocytopenia shortly after returning home to Chennai, India. Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense infection was diagnosed on examination of his peripheral smear. He made a full recovery after receiving a course of suramin.

The Sleeping Sickness of Uganda

34 cases by the same method and found the Trypanosoma in 20 cases, or 70 per cent. An examination of 12 cases of other diseases including three of Trypanosoma fever in the same way gave negative results. The matter was then taken up by" Lieutenant-Colonel David Bruce, F.n.c.s., R A M C and Dr. David N. Nabarro, who had been deputed by the Royal Society to investigate sleeping sickness, and arri...

some new leads for human african trypanosomiasis (african sleeping sickness)

Analysis of risk factors for T. brucei rhodesiense sleeping sickness within villages in south-east Uganda

BACKGROUND Sleeping sickness (HAT) caused by T.b. rhodesiense is a major veterinary and human public health problem in Uganda. Previous studies have investigated spatial risk factors for T.b. rhodesiense at large geographic scales, but none have properly investigated such risk factors at small scales, i.e. within affected villages. In the present work, we use a case-control methodology to analy...

Sleeping sickness – human African trypanosomiasis