Sleeping Sickness

Encyclopedia of Microbiology, Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 706-720

  Welburn, S C ^a   Maudlin, I ^a   Simarro, P P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

burden; control; diagnostics; elimination; epidemiology; human African trypanosomiasis; reservoir; sleeping sickness; Trypanosoma brucei gambiense; Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense; tsetse fly

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855707508     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012373944-5.00316-3     Document Type: Chapter

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