Gambian trypanosomiasis
1.Trypanosomiasis--Report of 77 cases of African human Trypanosomiasis in Southern Sudan
3.Bovine trypanosomiasis spreads widely in Ethiopia, producing a serious menance to cattle.
4.AN INVESTIGATION ON EPIZOOTIOLOGY OF TRYPANOSOMIASIS OF CATTLE IN BAHAR DAR REGION,ETHIOPIA
5.The Gambian giant rats were likely imported into the United States from Africa.
6.Dengue, filariasis, leishmaniasis, onchocerciasis, and American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease) are other diseases carried by insects.
7.Some patients may have been infected through contact with other infected animals, including a Gambian giant rat (purchased as an exotic pet) and a rabbit.
8.Traceback investigations have found a common distributor of exotic pets where prairie dogs and Gambian giant rats were housed together in Illinois.
9.A Gambian giant pouch rat receives the scent of a suspected anti-personnel mine in a minefield near the town of Vilancoulos, 450 km north east of the capital Maputo in Mozambique.
10.The mammalian salivaria causes African sleeping sickness in human and trypanosomiasis in domestic animals and the study of the protozoon occupies an important place in human medicine and veterinary medicine.
