trypanosomiasis, one would hardly expect detailed worldwide coverage, and Neill does mention certain key figures and developments in Asia and the Americas. But the silence on the extensive contacts between the Brazilian scientist Carlos Chagas, who discovered American trypanosomiasis in 1909, and his European counterparts working on African trypanosomiasis at precisely the same time is disappoi...

The control of bovine trypanosomiasis could be improved by using the available control tools during periods when the incidence of the disease is highest. The present study assessed the monthly risk of bovine trypanosomiasis in 85 sentinel cattle kept on the tsetse-infested eastern plateau of Zambia during a period of 19 consecutive months. To avoid problems associated with persistence of infect...

The Erythrocyte Osmotic Fragility (EOF) in case of anaemic cattle mostly affected with haemolytic anaemia were evaluated in this study. As haemolytic anaemia is a consistent finding in different blood protozoan diseases like theileriosis and trypanosomiasis, determination of EOF in these cases shows the level of osmotic stress in the affected animals. The present study was also aimed to determi...

African trypanosomiasis is the collective name for a wide variety of trypanosome infections that affect humans and livestock. In recent years, experimental mice infection models have provided new insights into both human and animal trypanosomiasis. Mouse models seem to be a valuable and versatile tool in trypanosomiasis-associated pathology and immunology research and highlight the variety show...

Trypanosoma species occur in vertebrates, principally in their blood and tissue fluids as intercellular. A few may invade the tissue fluids as intracellular parasites like Trypanosoma cruzi found within the cells of reticuloendothelial system and in the cardiac muscles. Trypanosomiasis in livestock has a profound influence on productivity (FAO, 2000). Seasonal occurrence of trypanosomiasis, mos...

Leishmaniasis and trypanosomiasis are two neglected and potentially lethal diseases that affect mostly the poor and marginal populations of developing countries around the world and consequently have an important impact on public health. Clinical manifestations such as cutaneous, mucocutaneous, and visceral disorders are the most frequent forms of leishmaniasis, a group of diseases caused by se...

Human trypanosomiasis is endemic in Africa and South America. Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) also known as sleeping sickness is caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (in East and South Africa) or Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (in West and Central Africa)1. Disease due to T.b. rhodesiense progresses rapidly over weeks while disease due to T.b. gambiense tends to be chronic. In both the ca...

BACKGROUND Although human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is uncommon among patients from non-endemic countries (NEC), there has been an increase in the number of cases reported in recent years. METHODS A systematic review of the literature was performed. The number of incoming tourists to HAT endemic countries was obtained from the United Nations World Tourism Organization. All HAT cases diagn...