How To Use Sleeping sickness In A Sentence
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He infected mice and rabbits with Trypanosoma gondii, the parasite responsible for the dreaded sleeping sickness, then injected the animals with chemical derivatives to determine if any of them could halt the infection.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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Tsetse flies are carriers of trypanosomes - the parasites transmitted by their bites, which cause sleeping sickness in men and cattle.
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Other common diseases include schistosomiasis, sleeping sickness, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, and pneumonia.
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A case of sleeping sickness studied by precise enumerative methods: Further observations.
Parasite Rex
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The same is true of tsetse flies that bring sleeping sickness to animals.
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The mosquitoes and the tsetze flies have been, only recently, proved to be the causes, the carriers, of diseases -- malaria, yellow fever, and sleeping sickness -- which annually have killed hundreds of thousands of men, colonists as well as natives.
More Science From an Easy Chair
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On the other hand, smallpox has been eradicated, sleeping sickness has become rare, and polio and leprosy are under control.
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Local officials in central-eastern Maniema Province said sleeping sickness, a fatal disease transmitted by the tsetse fly and formally known as trypanosomiasis, was on the rise with at least 120 new cases reported in 2001.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Around 300,000 people in Africa are thought to have sleeping sickness, also known as African trypanosomiasis which is fatal unless treated.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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One of the worst scourges of Africa and one that is to-day attracting world-wide attention is the disease known as trypanosomiasis, the terminal phase of which is sleeping sickness, one of the most ghastly diseases that we know.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
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The disease, properly called trypanosomiasis (trip'uh-noh-soh-my'uh-sis), is commonly called "African sleeping sickness.
The Human Brain
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His main research interest is the molecular biology and biochemistry of the organism that causes African sleeping sickness.
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Resistance to sleeping sickness is one trait that potentially could spread through selective breeding.
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The tsetse fly carries the trypanosome parasite, which causes sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in livestock.
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Crithidia, multiply freely, and pass ultimately to the mouthparts or salivary structures whence they may be inoculated into a new vertebrate host bitten by the invertebratehost, and that are responsible for various serious diseases (as Chagas 'disease, dourine, nagana, sleeping sickness, and surra) of humans and domestic animals
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It may be remarked in passing that its discovery had another incidental practical lesson of enormous value, and that was that it paved the way for the identification of a whole class of animal parasites causing infectious diseases, which already includes the organisms of Texas fever in cattle, dourine in horses, the _tsetse_ fly disease, the dreaded sleeping sickness, and finally such world-renowned plagues as syphilis and perhaps smallpox.
Preventable Diseases
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Sleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasis, debilitates before it kills.
1 Billion Suffer From Hidden Tropical Diseases, Says WHO
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Without medical treatment, sleeping sickness - or trypanosomiasis - is always fatal.
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Why have these partnerships ignored the most neglected diseases, such as kala-azar, Chagas' disease, and sleeping sickness?
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Transmitted by tsetse flies, in which the trypanosomes of African sleeping sickness develop, they enter their human host by the bite of the fly.
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East African sleeping sickness, caused by T brucei rhodesiense, is a zoonosis with an extensive animal reservoir in ungulates, including game animals.
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Sleeping sickness isspreadedspread by the bite of the tsetse fly. The insect can carry a parasite that infects the central nervous system.
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Human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness is one of the most important but equally most neglected tropical infections.
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Malnutrition and tropical diseases such as malaria, schistosomiasis, and sleeping sickness are widespread.
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Malaria, sleeping sickness, amebiasis, hookwork, yellow fever and other tropical diseases know no. boundaries.
Emergency in the Congo
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Here's an interesting strategy to control and eradicate sleeping sickness and nagana.
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Sleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasis, debilitates before it kills.
1 Billion Suffer From Hidden Tropical Diseases, Says WHO
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The new commitments aim to eradicate or reduce leprosy, lymphatic filariasis (also known as elephantiasis), blinding trachoma, sleeping sickness, Guinea worm, schistosomiasis (also called bilharzia), river blindness, soil-transmitted helminthes, Chagas disease and visceral leishmaniasis.
Agencies, Drug Makers, Gates Target 10 Diseases
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Sleeping sickness: Also known as trypanosomiasis, this disease affects people and animals.
Primates in the News
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Dr. Grace Murilla is the Kenyan principal investigator with a University of North Carolina-led consortium developing drugs to treat parasitic diseases such as trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness.
Five African Women Scientists Honored by AU
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The tsetse fly transmits sleeping sickness, midges transmits lumpy skin disease and three-day stiff sickness.
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One variety of trypanosomiasis causes sleeping sickness and is carried by tsetse fly.
Times, Sunday Times
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The main health threats are sleeping sickness, transmitted by the tsetse fly, and malaria.
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Malaria and filariasis are spread by mosquitoes, sleeping sickness by tsetse flies, kala-azar by sand flies, river blindness by black flies.
Parasite Rex
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MSF doctors still inject sleeping sickness patients with melarsoprol, an arsenic derivative so toxic that it melts plastic syringes and kills 1 in 20 patients.
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Tsetse flies are carriers of trypanosomes - the parasites transmitted by their bites, which cause sleeping sickness in men and cattle.
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Other common diseases include schistosomiasis, sleeping sickness, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, and pneumonia.
