Clinical presentation of T.b. rhodesiense sleeping sickness in second stage patients from Tanzania and Uganda.

• Main Authors: Irene Kuepfer (Author), Emma Peter Hhary (Author), Mpairwe Allan (Author), Andrew Edielu (Author), Christian Burri (Author), Johannes A Blum (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: A wide spectrum of disease severity has been described for Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) due to Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (T.b. rhodesiense), ranging from chronic disease patterns in southern countries of East Africa to an increase in virulence towards the north. However, only...