| factors associated with acquisition of human infective and animal infective trypanosome infections in domestic livestock in western kenya. | trypanosomiasis is regarded as a constraint on livestock production in western kenya where the responsibility for tsetse and trypanosomiasis control has increasingly shifted from the state to the individual livestock owner. to assess the sustainability of these localised control efforts, this study investigates biological and management risk factors associated with trypanosome infections detected by polymerase chain reaction (pcr), in a range of domestic livestock at the local scale in busia, ke ... | 2011 | 21311575 |
| temporal and spatial epidemiology of sleeping sickness and use of geographical information system (gis) in kenya. | in kenya, sleeping sickness (ss) caused by trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense is confined to the nyanza and western provinces tsetse belts. over the last two decades, the disease has exhibited great spatial variability in its spread and distribution. the objectives of the study were to map the spatial and temporal distribution of ss and determine possible risk factors associated with the disease in western kenya. | 2009 | 19326704 |
| trypanosoma brucei: comparison of circulating strains in an endemic and an epidemic area of a sleeping sickness focus. | human sleeping sickness in east africa is characterized by periods of long-term endemicity interspersed with short-term epidemics. the factors generating these huge changes are largely uncharacterized but probably reflect complex interactions among socioeconomic factors, ecological factors, and the movement and diversity of trypanosome strains. to investigate the role of trypanosome strains in the generation of these epidemics, we addressed two important questions. (1) are the trypanosome strain ... | 1998 | 9603485 |