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African Trypanosomiasis
Indran Balakrishnan, Alimuddin Zumla
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Abstract
The disease now known to be African trypanosomiasis has been recognised since the fifteenth century. However, active research into the disease did not begin until the commencement of European colonial expansion, and the link between the causative parasite, Trypanosoma brucei, and its vector, the tsetse fly, was established in the late nineteenth century. Trypanosomiasis remains as much a public health hazard today as it did when studies first began over 100 years ago.