THE 1901 UGANDA SLEEPING SICKNESS EPIDEMIC REVISITED - A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY

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KOERNER, T
DERAADT, P
MAUDLIN, I
机构
[1] UNIV BRISTOL,DEPT HIST STUDIES,BRISTOL BS8 1TB,AVON,ENGLAND
[2] WHO,CTD,CH-1270 GENEVA,SWITZERLAND
[3] DEPT VET CLIN SCI,TSETSE RES GRP,BRISTOL BS18 7DU,AVON,ENGLAND
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PARASITOLOGY TODAY | 1995年 / 11卷 / 08期
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10.1016/0169-4758(95)80046-8
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R38 [医学寄生虫学]; Q [生物科学];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ; 100103 ;
摘要
The greet sleeping sickness epidemic that occurred in Busoga at the turn of the century was caused by a trypanosome identified by Bruce os Trypanosoma gambiense. A study of trypanosomes from the recent epidemic in southeast Uganda has shed new light on the origins of the disease in Busoga. Thorsten Koerner, Peter de Raadt and ion Maudlin suggest that the epidemic at the turn of the century was of T. b. rhodesiense sleeping sickness, brought about then, as now, by social upheaval.
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