Late stage infection in sleeping sickness.

At the turn of the 19(th) century, trypanosomes were identified as the causative agent of sleeping sickness and their presence within the cerebrospinal fluid of late stage sleeping sickness patients was described. However, no definitive proof of how the parasites reach the brain has been presented s...

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Main Authors: Hartwig Wolburg, Stefan Mogk, Sven Acker, Claudia Frey, Monika Meinert, Caroline Schönfeld, Michael Lazarus, Yoshihiro Urade, Bruno Kilunga Kubata, Michael Duszenko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22496723/pdf/?tool=EBI