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Published reviews

• Options for Field Diagnosis of human African trypanosomiasis
  Clinical Microbiology Reviews, January 2005, p. 133-146, Vol. 18, No. 1.
  Chappuis F, Loutan L, Simarro P, Veerle Lejon V, Büscher P
  Diagnosis: an exhaustive review of field options mostly focused on T.b. gambiense infections
• Chapter 6, African Trypanosomiasis
  Parasitic diseases. Apple Trees Production L.L.C. NY pp:32-38.
  Despommier, Gwadz, Hotez, Knirsch.
  Disease: an excellent overview of African trypanosomiasis including both T.b. gambiense and T.b. rhodesiense with a section on vector control.
• A new initiative for the development of new diagnostic tests for human African trypanosomiasis [pdf 142kb]
  Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease 2006, 5:1
  Steverding D
  Diagnosis: reviews options for diagnosis and expectations from the FIND/WHO collaboration
• "Tropiques" par Jean Dutertre [French]
  A medical officer’s memories on his experience of tropical diseases in fracophoen Africa. Short stories and historical pages.
• Chemotherapy of human African trypanosomiasis: current and future prospects [pdf 186kb]
  TRENDS in Parasitology Vol.19 No.11 November 2003
  Fairlamb A.H.
  A good review of Trypanosomiasis chemotherapy
• Eliminating Human African Trypanosomiasis: Where do we stand and what comes next?
  PLoS Medecine, Feb. 2008. P. Simarro, J. Jannin, P. Cattand
• The Atlas of human African trypanosomiasis: a contribution to global mapping of neglected tropical diseases
  Simarro PP, Cecch G., Paone M., Franco J.R.. Diarra A., Ruiz J.A., Fèvre E.M., Courtin F., Mattioli R.C., Jannin J.G. International Journal of Health Geographics 2010, 9:57. Updated review of the distribution of the disease
• Chemotherapy for second-stage human African trypanosomiasis
  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2010;8:CD006201. Lutje V,, Seixas J, Kennedy A. A evidence based review of the treatment of the second stage of the disease
• The Human African Trypanosomiasis Control and Surveillance Programme of the World Health Organization 2000–2009: The Way Forward.
  PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2011 5(2): e1007. Simarro PP, Diarra A, Ruiz Postigo JA, Franco JR, Jannin JG. Review of the epidemiological situation and control and surveillance strategies for the future.