1. (Pathology) Also called: African sleeping sickness an African disease caused by infection with protozoans of the genus Trypanosoma, characterized by fever, wasting, and sluggishness 2. (Pathology) Also called (esp formerly): sleepy sickness an epidemic viral form of encephalitis characterized by...
Africansleeping sickness(Human African trypanosomiasis) is caused by a parasite called Trypanosoma brucei. As the name of the disease indicates, it is associated with sleep disturbances but there are many other neurological complications as well. Unless the patient is treated, the illness develops in ...
The name was coined by University of KwaZulu-Natal expert Johan Gallant, from “Africa” and “canis”, the Latin for dog.Afrikaans (noun) –South African language, developed out of the Dutch spoken in the country since the first Dutch East India Company settlement in the Cape, established ...
Most of the time(although I do not choose as I once did to deny the violence of my days by ignoring it)I am not so overtly violent.I remember that I am invisible and walk softly so as not to awaken the sleeping ones.Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things ...
It was in Africa that he investigated sleeping sickness and became known as a big game hunter. In 1912 he set up in practice in Heliopolis, near Cairo and then went to France to undertake duties at a base hospital. There he was taken ill and died. ...
Alone In Sleeping-Sickness Country by Felix Oswald (1915) discusses sleeping sickness, an epidemic disease carried by the tsetse fly that wiped out native and settler populations alike in the early days of European exploration of Africa. An interesting and detailed account of this East African ...
The search strategy involved the use of combinations of the following search terms: “(Malaria OR Plasmodium) AND (Trypanosomiases OR “Sleeping Sickness” OR “African Sleeping” OR Nagana OR Trypanosome OR Nannomona) AND (co-infection OR co-infection OR “Co-infection” OR mixed OR concurren...
Information provided by the National Sleeping Sickness Control Programmes revealed the existence of 632 fixed health facilities that are active in the control and surveillance of gambiense HAT in endemic countries having reported cases or having conducted active screening activities during the period 2000-...
1.(Pathology) Also called:African sleeping sicknessan African disease caused by infection with protozoans of the genusTrypanosoma,characterized by fever, wasting, and sluggishness 2.(Pathology) Also called (esp formerly):sleepy sicknessan epidemic viral form of encephalitis characterized by extreme drows...
Jan FE Cilliers’ (1908) poem, ‘Die vlakte’ (‘The plains’) seems intimately bound through its title to the/Xam myth of the second daughter of ‘Ga and ‘Gagen. (…) This poem describes the plains as a sleeping woman, with all of its “life held in her bosom”. (…) ...