Sleeping sickness in Uganda: a thin line between two fatal diseases.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine, through the use of molecular diagnostic tools, whether the two species of parasite that cause human African trypanosomiasis have become sympatric.

Design

Blood sampling of all available patients between June 2001 and June 2005 in central Uganda and between July and September 2003 in northwest Uganda and analysis of subcounty sleeping sickness records in Uganda between 1985 and 2005.

Setting

Sleeping sickness treatment centres in central and northwest Uganda and in south Sudan.

Participants

Patients presenting at the treatment centres and diagnosed as having sleeping sickness.

Main outcome measure

Classification of parasites from patients from each disease focus as either Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (acute form) or T b gambiense

SUBMITTER: Picozzi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1289320 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature