Sentences with phrase «gambian sleeping sickness»

Their best guesses were either sleeping sickness (also known as trypanosomiasis) or «Rip Van Winkle disease» (officially known as Kleine - Levin syndrome), which sounded more kosher to me.

Actually we get far less sleeping sickness here than they do in Tanganyika, only 102 cases out of 550,000 people two years ago.»

A lecturer with the Faculty of Vetenary Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Shuaibu Mohammed, has revealed that there are about 70,000 cases of sleeping sickness in Nigeria every year.

Researchers at the Universitat Jaume I (James I Univeristy, UJI) have developed new compounds for the treatment of infectious tropical diseases, such as malaria, sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis.

Eve's research is focused on malaria, schistosomiasis, sleeping sickness and Chagas disease.

Wolbachia appears even more attractive considering its potential application in controlling other insect - borne diseases, such as malaria and the tsetse fly's sleeping sickness.

Genzyme, for example, is committed to developing innovative therapies for diseases such as malaria and sleeping sickness that have largely disappeared in the industrial nations but affect millions in Third World countries.

Fortunately her parents had sensibly had their daughter vaccinated against sleeping sickness, and it had no effect.

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

Mass distribution of medications, international partnerships and targeted research are on track to eradicate sleeping sickness, Guinea worm and other ancient ailments

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

«Targeted nanoparticles can overcome drug resistance in trypanosomes: A high - tech approach to combat sleeping sickness and potentially other neglected diseases.»

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

Current treatment of sleeping sickness relies primarily on four drugs.

Asleep By Molly Caldwell Crosby (Penguin Group) Crosby's harrowing account traces seven case histories during the early - 1900s epidemic of encephalitis lethargica, a sleeping sickness.

It's a tsetse fly, the carrier of the single - celled parasites that cause sleeping sickness.

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

Without melarsoprol, sleeping sickness is fatal, yet the treatment itself kills 1 in 20.

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA — It's far from the ideal therapy, but scientists say a new combination of two old drugs is an important step forward in the fight against sleeping sickness, a long - neglected tropical disease.

Sleeping sickness, caused by two subspecies of the Trypanosoma brucei unicellular parasite and transmitted by tsetse flies, affects an estimated 50,000 to 70,000 people annually in Africa.

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

«We recommend that control programmes use a combined medical and vector control strategy to help combat sleeping sickness.»

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.

Gambian sleeping sickness — a deadly parasitic disease spread by tsetse flies — could be eliminated in six years in key regions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to new research by the University of Warwick.

In 2012, the World Health Organization set two public health goals for the control of Gambian sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease spread by the tsetse fly.

A new hope is emerging for eliminating sleeping sickness, which, despite a significant decrease in the 20th century, remains a major concern in Sub-Saharan Africa and a neglected tropical disease.

Strategies which rely only on self - reporting of illness and screening of low - risk individuals are unlikely to lead to elimination of sleeping sickness transmission by 2030, and delay elimination until the next century.

It would be a tragic mistake to dismiss the huge potential of new technologies for addressing some of the most enduring problems of poverty: drought - and pest - resistant varieties of food for poor farmers who have been bypassed by the Green Revolution; treatment for many tropical diseases, such as malaria and sleeping sickness; low - cost wireless computers that can break the information isolation of rural communities that rely only on the radio and word of mouth; and low - cost energy supplies for the vast majority of people in developing countries using dung and firewood.

SHEKO CATTLE: Only 2,400 of this Ethiopian breed remain, despite the fact that they are resistant to trypansomosis, a sleeping sickness that kills both cattle and people.

«Deadly sleeping sickness set to be eliminated in six years.»

They found that a two - pronged approach — integrating active screening and vector control — could substantially speed up the elimination of Gambian sleeping sickness in high burden areas of DRC.

Such hardiness in the face of locally tough conditions is a hallmark of the regional versions of various livestock breeds, such as worm - resistant Red Maasai sheep [see video here] and Sheko cattle with their immunity to sleeping sickness [see video here].

She was curious about whether zebra stripes were attractive to tabanids, a family of insects that includes tsetse flies and horseflies — notorious pests that can transmit illnesses such as sleeping sickness and Chagas disease.

She's speaking of sub-Saharan Africa's Glossina flies» «really cool biology,» not their ability to spread the parasite that gives humans and some other vertebrates potentially fatal sleeping sickness.

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

Since then, scientists have used the technique to eradicate the screwworm fly, which causes lesions on livestock, from North and Central America; the tsetse fly, which brings sleeping sickness, from Zanzibar; and the pink bollworm, a pest of cotton, from California.

The study suggests that animals play a bigger role in transmitting sleeping sickness than previously thought, and suggests that they could form a natural reservoir from which sleeping sickness could bounce back even if it were defeated in humans.

New research suggests that the parasite responsible for the vast majority of cases of sleeping sickness (red) might be harder to eliminate than previously thought.

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.

Such is the case for the trypanosomes, the protists I discussed last time as the source of Chagas Disease, but which also cause sleeping sickness in Africa.

«But the differences discovered in the distribution machinery in parasites and humans are of particular interest for developing new medicines against the sleeping sickness and other illnesses caused by trypanosomes in humans and animals.»

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

It may also lead to improved therapies to fight sleeping sickness; current medications used to combat the disease have improved over the past decade but still include an old arsenic - based drug that kills between 5 and 10 percent of the people receiving treatment, said the study's senior author Stephen Hajduk, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

«How trypanosome parasites communicate with each other: Findings could impact how sleeping sickness is treated.»

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.

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

«New weakness discovered in the sleeping sickness pathogen.»

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

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.

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