Knowledge: african trypanosomiasis

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Links

Trypanosomiasis 
http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/WWW/224/Trypano.html

Information about two forms of Trypanosoma brucei, which afflicts over 66 million people in 36 countries of sub-Saharan Africa.

Division of Parasitic Diseases - Trypanosomiasis 
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/trypanosomiasis/

Information about the East African and West African forms of Trypanosomiasis from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

African Trypanosomiasis 
http://www.astdhpphe.org/infect/Trypano.html

Factsheet with cause, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and prevention.

Programme Against African Trypanosomiasis (PAAT) 
http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/paat/home.html

Combines forces of FAO, IAEA, WHO, AU/IBAR and other relevant stakeholders concerned with the tsetse and trypanosomiasis problem. Includes disease information and maps.

eMedicine - African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness) 
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2140.htm

Article by Kitonga P Kiminyo, MD.

World Health Organization: African Trypanosomiasis 
http://www.who.int/topics/trypanosomiasis_african/en/

Fact sheets, research progress, and information about WHO efforts to control this deadly sleeping sickness, which is transmitted to humans by tsetse flies.

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