The African Trypanosomes

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: World Class Parasites, 1
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Medical microbiology.; Parasitology.; Tropical medicine.; Animal anatomy.; Life Sciences.; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology.; Medical Microbiology.; Tropical Medicine.
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African trypanosomes are tsetse-transmitted protozoa that inhabit the extracellular compartment of host blood. They cause fatal sleeping sickness in people, and Nagana, a wasting and generally fatal disease, in cattle. While trypanosomes are most common to Africa (about 30% of Africa's cattle g...

Table of Contents:

• African Trypanosomiasis: Failure of Science and Public Health
• The Programme Against African Trypanosomiasis Information System (Paatis)
• Effects of Climate, Human Population and Socio-economic Changes on Tsetse-transmitted Trypanosomiasis to 2050
• Tsetse Vector Based Strategies for Control of African Try Panosomiasis
• Diagnosis of Human and Animal African Trypanosomiasis
• Chemotherapy of African Trypanosomiasis
• Immunobiology of African Trypanosomiasis: New Paradigms, Newer Questions
• Identifying the Mechanisms of Trypanotolerance in Cattle
• Trypanosome Factors Controlling Population Size and Differentiation Status
• Endocytosis in African Trypanosomes
• The Genome of the African Trypanosome
• Towards a Trypanosomiasis Vaccine.