Skin deep

Elife. 2016 Oct 14:5:e21506. doi: 10.7554/eLife.21506.

Abstract

Trypanosome parasites are hiding in human skin, a discovery that may undermine efforts to eliminate sleeping sickness by 2020.

Keywords: Human African Trypanosomiasis; Trypanosoma brucei gambiense; epidemiology; global health; human; infectious disease; microbiology; mouse; reservoir; skin; transmission; tsetse fly.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Humans
  • Skin
  • Trypanosoma brucei gambiense*
  • Trypanosomiasis, African / parasitology
  • Tsetse Flies / parasitology*