title: Skin deep.
abstract: Trypanosome parasites are hiding in human skin, a discovery that may undermine efforts to eliminate sleeping sickness by 2020.
authors.affiliation: Department of Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Aitor
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-5237-1223
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Casas-Sánchez
authors.affiliation: Department of Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.|Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Álvaro
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-2576-7959
authors.initials: Á
authors.lastname: Acosta-Serrano
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D012867:Skin; D014347:Trypanosoma brucei gambiense; D014353:Trypanosomiasis, African / Q000469:parasitology; D014370:Tsetse Flies / Q000469:parasitology*
keywords: Human African Trypanosomiasis; Trypanosoma brucei gambiense; epidemiology; global health; human; infectious disease; microbiology; mouse; reservoir; skin; transmission; tsetse fly