Actigraphy in human African trypanosomiasis as a tool for objective clinical evaluation and monitoring: a pilot study.

• Main Authors: Alfred K Njamnshi (Author), Paul F Seke Etet (Author), Stephen Perrig (Author), Alphonse Acho (Author), Julius Y Funsah (Author), Dieudonné Mumba (Author), Jean-Jacques Muyembe (Author), Krister Kristensson (Author), Marina Bentivoglio (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness leads to a complex neuropsychiatric syndrome with characteristic sleep alterations. Current division into a first, hemolymphatic stage and second, meningoencephalitic stage is primarily based on the detection of white blood cells and/or trypan...