Author: Morgane Salines, Richard Selby, Charles Waiswa, Hannah Holt, Grant Napier and Javier Guitian
Year: 2016
About this Publication:
This is one of five country specific sub-Saharan African studies (conducted in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Uganda and Zambia) aimed at generating baseline information that could inform the integration of novel treatments, diagnostics and vaccines should they become available. A previous systematic review of recent and on-going Trypanosome & Tsetse control programs has been the basis for the geographic focus of the five studies. This report summarizes the results of the study which was carried out in Uganda (Southeast), where AAT is considered endemic. In this area cattle are the main reservoirs for Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (T. b. rhodesiense) which causes human African trypanosomosis (HAT) or ‘sleeping sickness’ in humans. There are also reports and evidence of the development of trypanocide resistance in the area. Districts included in the study were Busia, Buyende, Kumi, Iganga, Pallisa and Tororo.
Grant: Tryps2
Subject Areas: Research and Development
Diseases: Trypanosomosis
Keywords:
Animal African Trypanosomosis, Animal African trypanosomiasis, Cattle, Sub-Saharan Africa, Trypanosomosis, Tryps, Tsetse
Countries:
Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic Of, Congo, Republic Of, Cote D'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Sao Tome And Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, United Republic Of, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
