| [the distribution of sleep and wakefulness in human african trypanosomiasis]. | last century, patients with human african trypanosomiasis were described as sleepy by day and restless by night, and physicians referred to this condition as sleeping sickness. such a description could have evoked a disturbance of circadian rhythms. however, it is only in 1989 that the first 24-hour recording was performed by our team in niamey (niger) in a patient with sleeping sickness. the patient was a niger-born farm worker who had contracted the disease near gagnoa (côte d'ivoire). polysom ... | 1994 | 7496201 |