A disease endemic among people and animals in Central Africa. It is caused by various species of trypanosomes, particularly T. gambiense and T. rhodesiense. Its second host is the TSETSE FLY. Involvement of the central nervous system produces African sleeping sickness. Nagana is a rapidly fatal trypanosomiasis of horses and other animals.
    

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An account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone : to which is added an account of the present state of medicine among them / by Thomas Winterbottom.

Tsetse fly feeding on human blood

A survey of recent work on trypanosomiasis and tsetse flies : based on reports and papers published during the period 1932-1944 / compiled for the Tsetse Fly and Trypanosomiasis Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies by Charles Wilcocks, J.F. Corson and R.L. Sheppard.

Trypanosomiasis, African

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A survey of recent work on trypanosomiasis and tsetse flies : based on reports and papers published during the period 1932-1944 / compiled for the Tsetse Fly and Trypanosomiasis Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies by Charles Wilcocks, J.F. Corson and R.L. Sheppard.

Man against tsetse : struggle for Africa / John J. McKelvey.

Trypanosoma rhodesiense / by J.W.W. Stephens and H.B. Fantham.

The pathology of the brain in Rhodesian trypanosomiasis / by H.G. Calwell.

Contribution à la géographie médicale des maladies Africaines / par J. Brault.