Sleeping sickness in Uganda: Revisiting current and historical distributions

African Health Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 223-231

  Berrang Ford, Lea ^a,e   Odiit, Martin ^b   Maiso, Faustin ^c   Waltner Toews, David ^a   McDermott, John ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^e NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFORMATION CENTER; LIVESTOCK; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; TSETSE FLY; UGANDA;

ANIMALS; CENSUSES; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE VECTORS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES; UGANDA;

EID: 34347378676     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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