Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0057624

Zusammenfassung

Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), more commonly called sleeping sickness, is a debilitating and mortal disease that affects sub-Saharan African people living in remote rural areas far away from the formal health system. Thus patients with inadequate or limited access to health care are particularly disadvantaged. Despite the classical dichotomy between the chronic form of HAT caused by T. b. gambiense and the acute form attributable to T. b. rhodesiense, a diversity of clinical progression has been observed for T. b. gambiense ranging from asymptomatic forms to acute forms in Côte ...