Focus-specific clinical profiles in human African trypanosomiasis caused by trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1-12

  MacLean, Lorna M ^a   Odiit, Martin ^b   Chisi, John E ^c   Kennedy, Peter G E ^d   Sternberg, Jeremy M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Uganda AIDS Commission   (Uganda)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELARSOPROL; SURAMIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITEMIA; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOMNOLENCE; TREMOR; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; UGANDA; URINE INCONTINENCE; GEOGRAPHY; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALAWI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650693403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000906     Document Type: Article

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