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Rhodesian trypanosomiasis (medicine) and melatonin deacetylase (medicine)


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.


melatonin deacetylase (medicine)


melatonin deacetylase
<enzyme> Enzyme from various vertebrate ocular tissues converts melatonin to 5-hydroxytryptamine

Registry number: EC 3.5.1.-