Recommendations for Control of East African Sleeping Sickness in Uganda

East African sleeping sickness, caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, is prominent in Uganda and poses a serious public health challenge in the region. This publication attempts to provide key components for designing a strategy for a nationwide initiative to provide insecticide-treatment of the...

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Autor principal: Kotlyar, Simon
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Global Health Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300417
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.59250
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description East African sleeping sickness, caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, is prominent in Uganda and poses a serious public health challenge in the region. This publication attempts to provide key components for designing a strategy for a nationwide initiative to provide insecticide-treatment of the animal reservoir to control T. b. rhodesiense. The contents of this article will focus on insecticide-based vector control strategies, monitoring and evaluation framework, and knowledge gaps required for future initiatives.
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spelling pubmed-28409652010-03-18 Recommendations for Control of East African Sleeping Sickness in Uganda Kotlyar, Simon J Glob Infect Dis Global Health Report East African sleeping sickness, caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, is prominent in Uganda and poses a serious public health challenge in the region. This publication attempts to provide key components for designing a strategy for a nationwide initiative to provide insecticide-treatment of the animal reservoir to control T. b. rhodesiense. The contents of this article will focus on insecticide-based vector control strategies, monitoring and evaluation framework, and knowledge gaps required for future initiatives. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2840965/ /pubmed/20300417 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.59250 Text en © Journal of Global Infectious Diseases http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Recommendations for Control of East African Sleeping Sickness in Uganda
title Recommendations for Control of East African Sleeping Sickness in Uganda
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title_fullStr Recommendations for Control of East African Sleeping Sickness in Uganda
title_full_unstemmed Recommendations for Control of East African Sleeping Sickness in Uganda
title_short Recommendations for Control of East African Sleeping Sickness in Uganda
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840965/
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