Duration of symptoms and case fatality of sleeping sickness caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense in Tororo, Uganda

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 792-795

  Odiit, M ^a   Kansiime, F ^b   Enyaru, J C K ^a  

^a Livestock Health Research Institute (LIRI)   (Uganda)

^b Coord Off Contr T ^*  (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELARSOPROL; SURAMIN;

EPIDEMIOLOGY; MORTALITY RATE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FATALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARASITE VIRULENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; UGANDA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENCEPHALITIS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; UGANDA;

UGANDA, TORORO;

EID: 0031395065     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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