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Summary Of: Sleeping sickness

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encephalitis lethargica | | ICD | 10 | B | ICD | 9 | DiseasesDB | MedlinePlus | eMedicine | MeSH | parasitic | disease | protozoa | Trypanosoma brucei | tsetse fly | endemic | Sub-Saharan Africa | epidemics | Winterbottom's sign - Swollen lymph nodes along back of neck in child with early trypanosomiasis | | Winterbottom's sign | lymph nodes | swell up | Winterbottom's sign | anemia | neurological phase | blood-brain barrier | confusion | sleep cycle | fatigue | slumber | insomnia | tsetse fly | Sir David Bruce | Atoxyl | arsenic | Paul Ehrlich | Kiyoshi Shiga | Trypanosoma brucei gambiense | Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense | Africa | chronic condition | acute | Tabanidae | Nagana | Life cycle of the Trypanosoma brucei parasites. Source: CDC | | tsetse fly | binary fission | Two areas from a blood smear from a patient with African trypanosomiasis.  Thin blood smear stained with Giemsa.  Typical trypomastigote stages (the only stages found in patients), with a posterior kinetoplast, a centrally located nucleus, an undulating membrane, and an anterior flagellum.  The two Trypanosoma brucei species that cause human trypanosomiasis, T. b. gambiense and T. b. rhodesiense, are indistinguishable morphologically.  The trypanosomes length range is 14 to 33 µm, Source: CDC | | Giemsa | buffy coat | pentamidine | suramin | Eflornithine | melarsoprol | eflornithine | Suramin | Pentamidine | prophylactic | melarsoprol | encephalopathy | brain damage | melarsoprol | Eflornithine | Food and Drug Administration | Aventis | 2001 | Médecins Sans Frontières | World Health Organization | Democratic Republic of the Congo | New Sudan | Angola | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Phase IIb | Phase III | flagellum | high density lipoprotein | nanobody | August 25 | 2006 | Cell | Johns Hopkins | Tsetse fly control | sterile insect technique | screening | House | Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative | David Bruce (microbiologist) | Sleep disorder | tropical disease | Trypanosomes | Chagas | doi | doi | doi | doi | doi | August 25 | 2005 | September 15 | 2005 | Genetic Engineering News | doi | April 7 | 2006 | New Scientist | 2006 | 03-01 | doi | Médecins Sans Frontières | University of Iowa | University of California, San Francisco | v | d | Infectious diseases | Parasitic disease | protozoan infection | A06-A07 | B50-B64 | Apicomplexa | Coccidia | Cryptosporidiosis | Isosporiasis | Cyclosporiasis | Toxoplasmosis | Malaria | Blackwater fever | Babesiosis | Sarcomastigophora | Excavata | Mastigophora | Trypanosomiasis | Chagas disease | Leishmaniasis | Cutaneous leishmaniasis | Visceral leishmaniasis | Trichomoniasis | Giardia lamblia | Giardiasis | Sarcodina | Entamoeba histolytica | Amoebiasis | Dientamoeba fragilis | Dientamoebiasis | Naegleria fowleri | Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis | Blastocystis | Blastocystosis | Balantidium coli | Balantidiasis | Zygomycota | Microsporidia | Microsporidiosis | Mesomycetozoea | Rhinosporidium seeberi | Rhinosporidiosis | v | d | Sleep | Rapid eye movement sleep | Non-rapid eye movement sleep | Slow-wave sleep | Brain waves | Beta wave | Delta wave | Gamma wave | Theta wave | Sleep disorders | Advanced sleep phase syndrome | Automatic behavior | Bruxism | Circadian rhythm sleep disorder | Delayed sleep phase syndrome | Dyssomnia | Excessive daytime sleepiness | Hypersomnia | Insomnia | Narcolepsy | Night terror | Nocturia | Nocturnal myoclonus | Non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome | Ondine's curse | Parasomnia | Sleep apnea | Sleep deprivation | Sleepeating | Sleeptalking | Sleepwalking | Dream | Exploding head syndrome | False awakening | Hypnagogia | Hypnic jerk | Lucid dream | Nightmare | Nocturnal emission | Sleep paralysis | Somnolence | Bed | Bunk bed | Four poster bed | Futon | Hammock | Mattress | Bed bug | Bedding | Bedroom | Bedtime | Bedtime toy | Bedtime story | Chronotype | Dream journal | Jet lag | Lullaby | Nightwear | Polyphasic sleep | Power nap | Siesta | Sleep and learning | Sleep debt | Sleep diary | Sleep inertia | Sleep medicine | Sleepover | Snoring | Sleep and creativity | Categories | Health in Africa | Euglenozoa | Sleep disorders | Parasitic diseases | Tropical diseases | Neglected diseases | Insect-borne diseases |
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