Progress in Human African Trypanosomiasis, Sleeping Sickness

by Michel Dumas

Book Overview

Human African Trypaniosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness is an old disease to be now considered as reemergent. HAT is endemic in 36 sub-Saharan African countries, in areas where tsetse flies are found. The public health importance of HAT is underestimated, but the disease causes severe social disruption in many rural areas. Along the past fifteen years, numerous studies were made, and now, the mechanisms involved in the disease pathogenesis and in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2287596550
• ISBN13: 9782287596551
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"