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East African sleeping sickness
East African sleeping sickness[¦ēst ¦af·rə·kən ′slēp·iŋ ‚sik·nəs] (medicine) Rhodesian trypanosomiasis East African sleeping sickness
Rho·de·sian try·pan·o·so·mi·a·sisa 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 anemic, and frequently die from cardiac failure. Synonym(s): acute African sleeping sickness, acute trypanosomiasis, East African sleeping sickness, East African trypanosomiasis |