An incredible landmark in the study of #sleepingsickness .
Keith Matthews labโs Cell paper has answered a decades-old question โ how do #trypanosome parasites switch into a form that can be transmitted by tsetse flies? Funded by Wellcome
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We are happy to announce that we now have a simpler treatment for #sleepingsickness with 95% efficacy. The study results were published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases
The single-dose of acoziborole๐ is being developed by Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative and Sanofi. #beatNTDs
Read moreโก๏ธ bit.ly/3EP4oeD
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Congratulations Keith Matthews!โญ
One of the newly elected #RSFellows announced by The Royal Society
His studies on the lifecycle of #trypanosome parasites have advanced understanding of disease severity & spread in Africa
#sleepingsickness
edin.ac/2KNe79y
Shatta wale - sleeping sickness is for 18+
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#TsetseFly #SleepingSickness
I was honored to speak at #WHA27 today, discussing @Sanofi #globalhealth , incl. our partnership w/ World Health Organization (WHO) & Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative to eliminate #sleepingsickness . Read more about our collective efforts to defeat this devastating disease. #HealthForAll sanofi.com/en/our-responsโฆ
The July issue is now live! #decolonising #COVID19 #circumcision #HIV #rotavirus #rheumaticheartdisease #PCV13 #vaccination #sleepingsickness #fexinidazole #lymphoma #rituximab #Vietnam #Peru #SouthAfrica #Malawi
thelancet.com/journals/langlโฆ
Dr. David Horn reviews #genome -scale #RNAi screens in African #trypanosomes . #Trypanosoma tid #Trypanosoma #brucei #cruzi #Leishmania #Genomics #SleepingSickness #ChagasDisease #Leishmania sis WCAIR Univ of Dundee UoD Life Sciences British Society for Parasitology
Free access at authors.elsevier.com/a/1dokq5Eb1x7sโฆ
๐Picture of the day: Trypanosoma brucei in a thin blood film collected from a traveler returning from East Africa with fever. #sleepingsickness #NTDs #trypanosomiasis
Annette, the #sleepingsickness comics hero is showin us what a superhero really looks like :-)
Annette Macleod Lab Centre For Parasitology MeBoP
Excited to be part of National Museums Scotland new #Parasites exhibition
Find out how research taking place in Scotland is tackling #malaria #schistosomiasis #sleepingsickness #guineaworm #leishmaniasis
Featuring The Reece Lab P.I.G. Edinburgh Tiba Partnership
edin.ac/2sWNXeW
Exciting new research: Dogs infected with #trypanosoma brucei gambiense in Nigeria. Discover the paper here:
rdcu.be/bPID9
#science #parasites #sleepingsickness #AAT #HAT #Trypanozoon
Togo โ first country to eliminate #SleepingSickness as a #PublicHealthProblem after years of sustained control & surveillance. Important success in Togoโs continued commitment to #beatNTDs after its triumph against #LymphaticFilariasis in 2017.
Congratulations to Gouvernement Togolais/Togolese Government !
๐น๐ฌ #Togo , a country in #WestAfrica has received validation from the World Health Organization (WHO) for having ELIMINATED Human African #trypanosomiasis or โ #SleepingSickness โ as a #publichealth problem, becoming the FIRST country in #Africa to reach this milestone. zmescience.com/science/togo-eโฆ via ZME Science
The second part of my piece on the discovery of the cause of #SleepingSickness is now live! The commission deals with personality clashes and wrong hypotheses until a corkscrew shaped organism is found in a patient gla.ac.uk/researchinstitโฆ
