Adding tsetse control to medical activities contributes to decreasing transmission of sleeping sickness in the Mandoul focus (Chad).

• Main Authors: Mahamat Hissene Mahamat (Author), Mallaye Peka (Author), Jean-Baptiste Rayaisse (Author), Kat S Rock (Author), Mahamat Abdelrahim Toko (Author), Justin Darnas (Author), Guihini Mollo Brahim (Author), Ali Bachar Alkatib (Author), Wilfrid Yoni (Author), Inaki Tirados (Author), Fabrice Courtin (Author), Samuel P C Brand (Author), Cyrus Nersy (Author), Idriss Oumar Alfaroukh (Author), Steve J Torr (Author), Mike J Lehane (Author), Philippe Solano (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Gambian sleeping sickness or HAT (human African trypanosomiasis) is a neglected tropical disease caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense transmitted by riverine species of tsetse. A global programme aims to eliminate the disease as a public health problem by 2020 and stop transmission by 2030. In the...