title: Crisis, what crisis? Control of Rhodesian sleeping sickness.
abstract: There is an urgent need for cost-effective strategies for the sustainable control of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (Rhodesian) sleeping sickness, which is a fatal zoonotic disease that has caused devastating epidemics during the past century. Sleeping sickness continues to be controlled by crisis management, using active case detection, treatment and vector control - activities that occur only during major epidemics; during the intervening periods, farmers and communities must fend for themselves. There are several methods for assessing the burden of this disease and there is a series of farmer-led methodologies that can be applied to reduce the burden of human and animal trypanosomiases.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Midlothian, UK. sue.welburn@ed.ac.uk
authors.forename: Susan C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Welburn
authors.forename: Paul G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Coleman
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Maudlin
authors.forename: Eric M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Fèvre
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Odiit
authors.forename: Mark C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Eisler
mesh_terms: D000822:Animal Husbandry / Q000379:methods*; D000818:Animals; D017281:Cost of Illness; D006801:Humans; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000469:parasitology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D016833:Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense; D014353:Trypanosomiasis, African / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary; D014370:Tsetse Flies / Q000469:parasitology*