TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 355. Trypanosomiases
A1  - Ortega-Barria, Eduardo
A2  - Rudolph, Colin D.
A2  - Rudolph, Abraham M.
A2  - Lister, George E.
A2  - First, Lewis R.
A2  - Gershon, Anne A.
PY  - 2011
T2  - Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
AB  - African  trypanosomiasis  (sleeping  sickness)  is  a  parasitic  disease  transmitted  by  tsetse  flies  of  the  genus  Glossina  and  caused  by  a  group  of  parasites  called  trypanosomes.1  West  African  trypanosomiasis,  also  called  Gambian  sleeping  sickness,  is  caused  by  a  subspecies  of  the  extracellular  flagellate  Trypanosoma  brucei  known  as  Trypanosoma  brucei  gambiense.  East  African  trypanosomiasis,  also  called  Rhodesian  sleeping  sickness,  is  caused  by  T  brucei  rhodesiense.  These  diseases  exist  in  Africa  wherever  the  various  species  of  Glossina  (ie,  the  tsetse  fly)  are  found.  
SN  - 
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CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/23
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