Citation
Sc. Welburn et al., Sleeping sickness: a tale of two disease, TRENDS PARA, 17(1), 2001, pp. 19-24
Citations number
51
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY
ISSN journal
14714922
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Volume
17
Issue
1
Year of publication
2001
Pages
19 - 24
Database
ISI
SICI code
1471-4922(200101)17:1<19:SSATOT>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
Sleeping sickness presents clinically as two distinct diseases, reflecting
the fact that two very different trypanosomes are responsible. The African
Rift separating East and West Africa defines the distribution of the two di
seases. In this review, Susan Welburn, Eric Fevre, Paul Coleman, Martin Odi
it and lan Maudlin discuss the biology and distribution of these two diseas
es in relation to the evolution of hominids in Africa.