Adding tsetse control to medical activities contributes to decreasing transmission of sleeping sickness in the Mandoul focus (Chad).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gambian sleeping sickness or HAT (human African trypanosomiasis) is a neglected tropical disease caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense transmitted by riverine species of tsetse. A global programme aims to eliminate the disease as a public health problem by 2020 and stop transmission by 2030. In the South of Chad, the Mandoul area is a persistent focus of Gambian sleeping sickness where around 100 HAT cases were still diagnosed and treated annually until 2013. Pre-2014, control of HAT relied solely on case detection and treatment, which lead to a gradual decrease in the number of cases of HAT due to annual screening of the population.

Methods

Because of the persistence of transmission and detection of new cases, we assessed whether the addition of vector control t

SUBMITTER: Mahamat MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5549763 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature