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Human host determinants influencing the outcome of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense infections.
Parasite immunology - 1 Aug 2011
Bucheton B, MacLeod A, Jamonneau V
Abstract excerpt
Since first identified, human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness has been described as invariably fatal. Increasing data however argue that infection by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, the causative agent of HAT, results in a wide range of outcomes in its human host and importantly that a number of subjects in endemic areas are apparently able to control infection to low levels, undetectable by the...
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