Trypanosomiasis, African
A disease endemic among people and animals in Central Africa. It is caused by various species of trypanosomes, particularly T. gambiense and T. rhodesiense. Its second host is the TSETSE FLY. Involvement of the central nervous system produces African sleeping sickness. Nagana is a rapidly fatal trypanosomiasis of horses and other animals.
Year introduced: NAGANA was heading 1991-1994
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Tree Number(s): C01.610.752.300.900.719, C01.920.937
MeSH Unique ID: D014353
Entry Terms:
- African Trypanosomiases
- Trypanosomiases, African
- African Sleeping Sickness
- African Sleeping Sicknesses
- Sickness, African Sleeping
- Sicknesses, African Sleeping
- Sleeping Sickness, African
- Sleeping Sicknesses, African
- African Trypanosomiasis
- Nagana