Sentences with phrase «african sleeping sickness»

This has been of great value to me in giving me first hand experience of East African sleeping sickness and in more recent years the impact of schistosomiasis (bilharzia).

Cilia play important roles in nearly every human organ and also are essential for the survival of many parasites, such as trypanosoma brucei that causes African sleeping sickness, giving Dong's work the potential for wide influence.

Ullu was recognized for her lab's work with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei, which causes African sleeping sickness, to uncover a novel mechanism of gene silencing known as RNA interference.

Trypanosomes are single - celled parasites that cause diseases such as human African sleeping sickness and Nagana in animals.

There were 6,314 new cases of African sleeping sickness in 2013.

Nanotubes fuse to form vesicles in African trypanosomes, a parasite that causes African sleeping sickness.

Melarsoprol, the only available treatment for advanced African sleeping sickness, is a toxic mixture injected intravenously every few days for four weeks.

The trypanosome parasites that cause African sleeping sickness are awesome adversaries.

More than 4,000 flies were captured, of which 30 % — mostly tsetse flies, which spread African sleeping sickness — were engorged with blood.

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The number of cases of sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis) fell from 37,000 new cases in 1999 to under 3,000 in 2015.

Sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, is caused by trypanosome parasites transmitted by tsetse flies and threatens millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa.

Gambian sleeping sickness, or Gambian human African trypanosomiasis, is caused by a parasite called Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, carried by tsetse flies in Central and West Africa.

Human African Trypanosomiasis — also known as sleeping sickness — is a parasitic disease transmitted by the tsetse fly and provoked by Trypanosoma protozoans.

In fact, the researchers say, the loss of wildlife habitat in Africa — and not human treatment programs — could be the main reason that sleeping sickness disease, usually called human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), is now on the retreat.

While scientists have known for years that African trypanosomes cause sleeping sickness, they've been left scratching their heads as to how these tiny single - celled organisms communicate.

African trypanosomes cause human sleeping sickness and livestock trypanosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa.

1 By contrast, the native Africans exhibited a very high tolerance to infectious disease including malaria carried by mosquitos, typhus and fevers transmitted by lice and sleeping sickness borne by the tsetse fly.

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