See Also: Rhodesian trypanosomiasis(medicine)
Rhodesian(dictionary)
Rhodesian ridgeback(encyclopedia)
Rhodesian malignant theileriosis(medicine)
trypanosomiasis(dictionary)
Trypanosomiasis(medicine)
chronic trypanosomiasis(medicine)
trypanosomiasis, african(medicine)
trypanosomiasis, bovine(medicine)
African trypanosomiasis(health)

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Rhodesian trypanosomiasis (medicine)


Rhodesian trypanosomiasis


A disease of humans caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense in eastern Africa from Ethiopia and Uganda south to Zimbabwe; it is clinically similar to Gambian trypanosomiasis but of shorter duration and more acute in form; patients suffer repeated episodes of pyrexia, become anaemic, and die commonly from cardiac failure.

Synonym: acute African sleeping sickness, acute trypanosomiasis, East African sleeping sickness, East African trypanosomiasis.