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A 5 page overview of African Sleeping Sickness and the Organisms that cause it. The author discusses the manner in which the disease is transmitted, its impact to the body, symptoms and treatment. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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African sleeping sickness is caused by microscopic organisms classified as the kinetoplastids. Within that classification are the trypanosomes, the specific causative agent in
this disease. The Trypanosoma brucei species complex is of particular concern (Wiser, 2004). Although sometimes distinguished as species, the most commonly agreed upon classification in this complex is
subspecies (Wiser, 2004). This complex includes Trypanosoma brucei brucei, Trypanosoma brucei rhodensiense, and Trypanosoma brucei gambiense. Interestingly, although the subspecies
of the Trypanosoma brucei complex are indistinguishable based on morphological features, they have very distinctive effects and choices of host species (Wiser, 2004). Trypanosoma brucei brucei targets game animals
and livestock causing a condition referred to as nagana (Wiser, 2004). Trypanosoma brucei rhodensiense and Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, on the other hand, target man (Wiser, 2004). Respectively, these
two subspecies cause East African trypanosomiasis and Central African sleeping sickness in humans while Trypanosoma brucei brucei is non-infective to the human species (Wiser, 2004).
It is Trypanosoma brucei rhodensiense which results in the rapidly advancing form of sleeping sickness while Trypanosoma brucei gambiense is responsible for the slower moving form (Ghaffar, 2005).
It is this slower moving form which predominates in western and central Africa (Ghaffar, 2005). Trypanosoma brucei rhodensiense is restricted to approximately one-third of the continent,
in the far eastern regions (Ghaffar, 2005). It is this form, however, which has the most impressionable human impact. Ghaffer (2005) estimates 6,000 to 10,000 human cases
are documented every year and warns that the organism presents a threat to cattle as well (Ghaffar, 2005). Wiser (2004) suggests that up to 500,000 cases occur annually
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