Mortality trends and risk factors in advanced stage-2 Human African Trypanosomiasis: A critical appraisal of 23 years of experience in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• Main Authors: Léon Mbiyangandu Kazumba (Author), Jean-Claude Tshinzobe Kaka (Author), Dieudonné Mumba Ngoyi (Author), Désiré Tshala-Katumbay (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We conducted a retrospective study on mortality trends and risk factors in 781 naïve cases of advanced stage-2 sleeping sickness admitted between 1989 and 2012 at the National Reference Center for Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), Department of Neurology, Kinshasa University, Democratic Republic...