Aksoy, SerapAttardo, GeoffreyBerriman, MatthewChristoffels, AlanLehane, MikeMasiga, Daniel K.Toure', Yeya2015-06-092015-06-092014Aksoy 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.00026241529-7268http://hdl.handle.net/10566/1504Human 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© 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.Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT)Sleeping sicknessTrypanosoma brucei gambienseAfricaArticle