Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

Introduction: Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

Description of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (medical condition): West African sleeping sickness from the tsetse fly. See also West African Trypanosomiasis:
  »Introduction: West African Trypanosomiasis
  »Symptoms of West African Trypanosomiasis
  »Treatments for West African Trypanosomiasis

Trypanosoma brucei gambiense: a protozoan subspecies causing Gambian trypanosomiasis in humans; transmitted by tsetse flies, especially Glossina palpalis. SYN: Trypanosoma gambiense, Trypanosoma hominis, Trypanosoma ugandense.
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Trypanosoma brucei gambiense: A hemoflagellate subspecies of parasitic protozoa that causes Gambian or West African sleeping sickness in humans. The vector host is usually the tsetse fly (Glossina).
Source: Diseases Database

Trypanosoma brucei gambiense: A hemoflagellate subspecies of parasitic protozoa that causes Gambian or West African sleeping sickness in humans. The vector host is usually the tsetse fly (Glossina).
Source: MeSH 2007

Trypanosoma brucei gambiense as a Disease

Trypanosoma brucei gambiense: Another name for West African Trypanosomiasis (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: West African Trypanosomiasis
  »Symptoms of West African Trypanosomiasis
  »Treatments for West African Trypanosomiasis

Trypanosoma brucei gambiense: Trypanosoma brucei gambiense is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database: African Sleeping sickness

Symptoms of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (West African Trypanosomiasis)

Some of the symptoms of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense incude:

• Red sore - at the fly bite site
• Chancre
• Insomnia at night
• Daytime sleepiness
• Fever

See full list of 39 symptoms of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (West African Trypanosomiasis)

Treatments for Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (West African Trypanosomiasis)

Treatments for Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (West African Trypanosomiasis) include:

• Pentamidine - if no CNS symptoms present
• Suramin
• Eflornithine
• Melarsoprol - if CNS symptoms present

Read more about treatments for Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

Treatment of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense: For more treatment information about Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, see treatment of West African Trypanosomiasis (Trypanosoma brucei gambiense)

Trypanosoma brucei gambiense: Article Excerpts about West African Trypanosomiasis

There are two types of African trypanosomiasis, also called sleeping sickness, named for the areas in Africa in which they are found. West African trypanosomiasis, also called Gambian sleeping sickness, is caused by a parasite called Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (tri-PAN-o-SO-ma brew-see-eye gam-be-ense). Worldwide, 20,000 new cases of both East and West African trypanosomiasis are reported each year. Few cases of West African trypanosomiasis have been reported in the United States. (Source: excerpt from West African Trypanosomiasis: DPD)

Terms associated with Trypanosoma brucei gambiense:

Terms Similar to Trypanosoma brucei gambiense:

• Sleeping sickness (West African)
• Gambian trypanosomiasis

Source: Diseases Database

• Trypanosoma gambiense

Source - MeSH 2007

Broader terms for Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

• Trypanosoma

Source - MeSH 2007

The following terms can be used for Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

• Trypanosoma brucei

Source: CRISP

Hierarchical classifications of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

The following list attempts to classify Trypanosoma brucei gambiense into categories where each line is subset of the next.

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy:

• Animals
  • Invertebrates
    • Protozoa
      • Sarcomastigophora
        • Mastigophora
          • Zoomastigophora
            • Kinetoplastida
              • Trypanosomatina
                • Trypanosoma
                  • Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

External links related to: Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

• DPDx - Trypanosomiasis, African
• Trypanosoma brucei (www.whonamedit.com)
• Trypanosoma sp. (African trypanosomiasis)
• eMedicine - African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness) : Article by Kitonga P Kiminyo, MD

Source: Diseases Database

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