Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, is associated with diverse clinical outcomes. Host’s genetic factors involved in immunity are potential factors that ...
This study was funded with UK aid from the UK government’under the DfID Research into Use Programme(SCW,LH,KP,KP,KLB,CW,JDK)and from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program(FP7/2007-2014)under grant agreement n°221948 Integrated Control of Neglected Zoonoses(ICONZ)(SCW,KP,KLB,CW,JDK);Treatment of village cattle was undertaken under the Stamp Out Sleeping Sickness Programme supported by IKARE and Ceva Sante Animale;The funders had no role in study design,data collection and analysis,decision to publish,or preparation of the manuscript.
Background:Uganda has suffered from a series of epidemics of Human African Trypanosomiasis(HAT),a tsetse transmitted disease,also known as sleeping sickness.The area affected by acute Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense HA...
Chromosome segregation is a tightly regulated process through which duplicated genetic materials are equally partitioned into daughter cells. During the past decades, tremendous efforts have been made to understand th...
Supported by a grant from graduate school(GSEU 20RR0234/2011),Egerton University Faculty Research Committee.
Objective:To establish the modulatory effects of coenzyme Q_(10)on experimental trypanosome infections in mice and evaluate the risk of occurrence and severity of melarsoprol-induced post treatment reactive encephalop...
Objective:To investigate the effect of diminazene aceturale(DA) alone or in combination with either levamisole and/or Vitamin C in albino rats experimentally infected with Trypanosoma brucei brucei.Methods:Thirty adul...
Supported by Education Trust Fund of Nigeria with the grant number ETF/DESS/AS&D/UNIV/ABU/ZARIA/V2
Objective:To investigate thein vitroandin vivoeffect of whole plant extracts ofPeristrophe bicalyculataonTrypanosoma brucei brucei-infected rats.Methods:The experiment wasdivided into two phases:In the first phase,the...
Objective:To evaluate the in vivo trypanocidal activity of the methanol extract and fractions of Abrus precatorius seeds in mice.Methods:Parasiteamia was induced unto mice by intraperitoneal injection of 1.25×10...
Objective:To investigate the effects of immediate post-partum infection with Trypanosoma brucei(T.brucei) on dam and offspring.Methods:Sixty female Albino rats(Rattus norvegicus) weighing between 130-170 g were us...
Objective:To investigated the prevalence of human African trypanosomiasis(HAT),a neglected tropical disease caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiens in an endemic focus of Nigeria,as it relates to age,sex and occupationa...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Ⅰ. INTRODUCTIONTrypanosoma evansi has the widest geographic range of all the pathogenic trypanosomes and is an important etiological agent of disease in the domestic animals, especially in buffalo and horse in China....