Cluster of African trypanosomiasis in travelers to Tanzanian national parks.
Game parks in Tanzania have long been considered to be at low risk for African trypanosomiasis; however, nine cases of the disease associated with these parks were recently reported. The outbreak was detected through TropNetEurop, a sentinel surveillance network of clinical sites throughout Europe.
Jelinek
Tomas
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Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany. jelinek@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Bisoffi
Zeno
Z
Bonazzi
Lucio
L
van Thiel
Pieter
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Bronner
Ulf
U
de Frey
Albie
A
Gundersen
Svein Gunnar
SG
McWhinney
Paul
P
Ripamonti
Diego
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D013636:Tanzania / Q000453:epidemiology; D014195:Travel; D014347:Trypanosoma brucei gambiense / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014353:Trypanosomiasis, African / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*