title: Dental management of the tropical disease human African trypanosomiasis: an unusual case of pseudobulbar palsy.
abstract: Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) is a parasitic tropical disease endemic to sub-Saharan Africa. Due to migration and holiday travel patterns cases are increasing in the United Kingdom. The neurological sequelae have dental management implications both directly from the consequent physical disability and indirectly from the oral side-effects of the medications used to manage symptoms. Changes in disease demographics require the dental profession to increase its awareness of migration medicine and the appropriate dental management of such diseases.
authors.affiliation: Solent Healthcare Dental Service, Dental Department, Bitterne Health Centre, Commercial Street, Southampton, Hampshire, SO18 6BT. laura.frost@solent.nhs.uk
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Frost
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D020807:Central Nervous System Parasitic Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000469:parasitology; D003389:Cranial Nerve Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000469:parasitology; D003680:Deglutition Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D017742:Dental Care for Chronically Ill / Q000379:methods*; D003730:Dental Care for Persons with Disabilities / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D020828:Pseudobulbar Palsy / Q000150:complications* / Q000469:parasitology; D014330:Tropical Medicine; D016833:Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense; D014353:Trypanosomiasis, African / Q000150:complications* / Q000469:parasitology; D014987:Xerostomia / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy