Updated estimate of the duration of the meningo-encephalitic stage in gambiense human African trypanosomiasis

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Checchi, Francesco ^a   Funk, Sebastian ^a   Chandramohan, Daniel ^a   Haydon, Daniel T ^b   Chappuis, François ^c,d  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diagnostic algorithm; Duration of infection; Endemic equilibrium; Mathematical model; Screening coverage; Sleeping sickness; Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

Indexed keywords

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE;

HUMAN; NEGLECTED DISEASES; PATHOGENICITY; SUDAN; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; TRANSMISSION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; UGANDA;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEGLECTED DISEASES; SUDAN; TIME FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; UGANDA;

EID: 84936073091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-015-1244-3     Document Type: Article

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