Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3423613 | Trends in Parasitology | 2006 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
There is an urgent need for cost-effective strategies for the sustainable control of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (Rhodesian) sleeping sickness, which is a fatal zoonotic disease that has caused devastating epidemics during the past century. Sleeping sickness continues to be controlled by crisis management, using active case detection, treatment and vector control – activities that occur only during major epidemics; during the intervening periods, farmers and communities must fend for themselves. There are several methods for assessing the burden of this disease and there is a series of farmer-led methodologies that can be applied to reduce the burden of human and animal trypanosomiases.
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Authors
Susan C. Welburn, Paul G. Coleman, Ian Maudlin, Eric M. Fèvre, Martin Odiit, Mark C. Eisler,