Trypanosomiasis, the Glossary

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1. 52 relations: African buffalo, African trypanosomiasis, Agriculture, Anemia, Animal trypanosomiasis, Annual Review of Entomology, Annual Reviews (publisher), Blood smear, Brazil, Buffy coat, Camel, Cattle, Chagas disease, Chronic condition, Covering sickness, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eflornithine, Epidemic, Expo 2015, Flagellate, Gamma ray, Incidence (epidemiology), International Atomic Energy Agency, Latin America, List of cattle breeds, Melarsoprol, N'Dama, Natural reservoir, Parasitism, Pentamidine, Protozoa, Rift Valley lakes, River, Savanna, Senegal, Springer Science+Business Media, Sub-Saharan Africa, Subspecies, Sudan, Suramin, Surra, Tanzania, The Washington Post, Trypanosoma, Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosomatida, Trypanotolerance, Tsetse fly, Uganda, Vertebrate, ... Expand index (2 more) »

2. Protozoal diseases

African buffalo

The African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a large sub-Saharan African bovine.

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African trypanosomiasis

African trypanosomiasis is an insect-borne parasitic infection of humans and other animals. Trypanosomiasis and African trypanosomiasis are protozoal diseases.

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Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Anemia

Anemia or anaemia (British English) is a blood disorder in which the blood has a reduced ability to carry oxygen.

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Animal trypanosomiasis

Animal trypanosomiasis, also known as nagana and nagana pest, or sleeping sickness, is a disease of vertebrates.

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Annual Review of Entomology

The Annual Review of Entomology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes review articles about entomology, the study of insects.

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Annual Reviews (publisher)

Annual Reviews is an independent, non-profit academic publishing company based in San Mateo, California.

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Blood smear

A blood smear, peripheral blood smear or blood film is a thin layer of blood smeared on a glass microscope slide and then stained in such a way as to allow the various blood cells to be examined microscopically.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Buffy coat

The buffy coat is the fraction of an anticoagulated blood sample that contains most of the leukocytes and thrombocytes following centrifugation.

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Camel

A camel (from camelus and κάμηλος from Ancient Semitic: gāmāl) is an even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back.

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Cattle

Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.

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Chagas disease

Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical parasitic disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi. Trypanosomiasis and Chagas disease are protozoal diseases.

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Chronic condition

A chronic condition (also known as chronic disease or chronic illness) is a health condition or disease that is persistent or otherwise long-lasting in its effects or a disease that comes with time.

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Covering sickness

Covering sickness, or dourine (French, from the Arabic darina, meaning mangy (said of a female camel), feminine of darin, meaning dirty), is a disease of horses and other members of the family Equidae.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Eflornithine

Eflornithine, sold under the brand name Vaniqa among others, is a medication used to treat African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) and excessive hair growth on the face in women.

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Epidemic

An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος demos "people") is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of hosts in a given population within a short period of time.

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Expo 2015

Expo 2015 was a World Expo hosted by Milan, Italy.

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Flagellate

A flagellate is a cell or organism with one or more whip-like appendages called flagella.

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Gamma ray

A gamma ray, also known as gamma radiation (symbol), is a penetrating form of electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei.

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Incidence (epidemiology)

In epidemiology, incidence reflects the number of new cases of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time.

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International Atomic Energy Agency

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an intergovernmental organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons.

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Latin America

Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.

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List of cattle breeds

Over 1000 breeds of cattle are recognized worldwide, some of which adapted to the local climate, others which were bred by humans for specialized uses.

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Melarsoprol

Melarsoprol is an arsenic-containing medication used for the treatment of sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis).

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N'Dama

N'Dama is a breed of cattle from West Africa.

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Natural reservoir

In infectious disease ecology and epidemiology, a natural reservoir, also known as a disease reservoir or a reservoir of infection, is the population of organisms or the specific environment in which an infectious pathogen naturally lives and reproduces, or upon which the pathogen primarily depends for its survival.

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Parasitism

Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.

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Pentamidine

Pentamidine is an antimicrobial medication used to treat African trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, Balamuthia infections, babesiosis, and to prevent and treat pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in people with poor immune function.

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Protozoa

Protozoa (protozoan or protozoon; alternative plural: protozoans) are a polyphyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, that feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic debris.

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Rift Valley lakes

The Rift Valley lakes are a series of lakes in the East African Rift valley that runs through eastern Africa from Ethiopia in the north to Malawi in the south, and includes the African Great Lakes in the south.

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River

A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.

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Savanna

A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

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Senegal

Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.

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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.

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Sudan

Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.

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Suramin

Suramin is a medication used to treat African sleeping sickness and river blindness.

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Surra

Surra (from the Marathi sūra, meaning the sound of heavy breathing through nostrils, of imitative origin) is a disease of vertebrate animals. Trypanosomiasis and Surra are protozoal diseases.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Trypanosoma

Trypanosoma is a genus of kinetoplastids (class Trypanosomatidae), a monophyletic group of unicellular parasitic flagellate protozoa.

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Trypanosoma brucei

Trypanosoma brucei is a species of parasitic kinetoplastid belonging to the genus Trypanosoma that is present in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Trypanosomatida

Trypanosomatida is a group of kinetoplastid unicellular organisms distinguished by having only a single flagellum.

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Trypanotolerance

A trypanotolerant organism is one which is relatively less affected by trypanosome infestation.

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Tsetse fly

Tsetse (sometimes spelled tzetze; also known as tik-tik flies) are large, biting flies that inhabit much of tropical Africa.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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Vertebrate

Vertebrates are deuterostomal animals with bony or cartilaginous axial endoskeleton — known as the vertebral column, spine or backbone — around and along the spinal cord, including all fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

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World Organisation for Animal Health

The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), formerly the Office International des Epizooties (OIE), is an intergovernmental organisation founded in 1924, coordinating, supporting and promoting animal disease control.

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Zoo

A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes.

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See also

Protozoal diseases

• Acanthamoeba keratitis
• African trypanosomiasis
• Antiprotozoal agents
• Avian malaria
• Babesiosis
• Besnoitiosis
• Blastocystosis
• Chagas disease
• Cryptosporidiosis
• Cyclosporiasis
• Dientamoebiasis
• Free-living Amoebozoa infection
• Giardia duodenalis
• Giardiasis
• Histomoniasis
• Leishmaniasis
• Malaria
• Plasmodium falciparum
• Plasmodium vivax
• Pneumocystosis
• Protothecosis
• Protozoan infection
• Surra
• Toxoplasmosis
• Trichomoniasis
• Trypanosomiasis

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypanosomiasis

Also known as Mal de Caderas, Rhodesiense trypanosomiasis, Trypanosomiases, Trypanosomiasis African, Trypanosomiasis Gambiense, Trypanosomiasis, bovine, Trypanosomoses, Trypanosomosis.

, World Organisation for Animal Health, Zoo.