Planning the control of sleeping sickness: A sequel
- 1 July 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 46 (4) , 437-448
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(52)90061-8
Abstract
A resurvey of the Lawra-Tumu area of the Gold coast, taken nearly 10 years after the original survey and the initiation of mass treatment for trypanosomiasis accompanied by tsetse fly control measures, indicates that sleeping sickness has largely disappeared from the region. A small outbreak was found in a village where the fly-control measures had not been complete. Use of the blood-film technique caught these cases in an early stage, long before glandular involvement developed. Blood-film methods are easier to employ and are more efficient than are gland puncture methods.Keywords
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