Sleeping sickness in Uganda: a thin line between two fatal diseases
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Sleeping sickness in Uganda: a thin line between two fatal diseases.
OBJECTIVE To determine, through the use of molecular diagnostic tools, whether the two species of parasite that cause human African trypanosomiasis have become sympatric. DESIGN Blood sampling of all available patients between June 2001 and June 2005 in central Uganda and between July and September 2003 in northwest Uganda and analysis of subcounty sleeping sickness records in Uganda between ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.331.7527.1238