Human African trypanosomiasis research gets booost: unravelling the tsetse Genome

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dc.contributor.authorAksoy, Serap
dc.contributor.authorAttardo, Geoffrey
dc.contributor.authorBerriman, Matthew
dc.contributor.authorChristoffels, Alan
dc.contributor.authorLehane, Mike
dc.contributor.authorMasiga, Daniel K.
dc.contributor.authorToure', Yeya
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-09T14:48:57Z
dc.date.available2015-06-09T14:48:57Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractHuman African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, is a neglected disease that impacts 70 million people distributed over 1.55 million km2 in sub-Saharan Africa. Trypanosoma brucei gambiense accounts for almost 90% of the infections in central and western Africa, the remaining infections being from T. b. rhodesiense in eastern Africa. Furthermore, the animal diseases caused by related parasites inflict major economic losses to countries already strained. The parasites are transmitted to the mammalian hosts through the bite of an infected tsetse fly.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.identifier.citationAksoy S., et al. (2014) Human African trypanosomiasis research gets a boost: unraveling the tsetse genome. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 8(4) e2624. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0002624en_US
dc.identifier.issn1529-7268
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1504
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherPLOS
dc.rights© 2014 Aksoy et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002624
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectHuman African Trypanosomiasis (HAT)en_US
dc.subjectSleeping sicknessen_US
dc.subjectTrypanosoma brucei gambienseen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.titleHuman African trypanosomiasis research gets booost: unravelling the tsetse Genomeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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