Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan 2024)

Reemergence of Human African Trypanosomiasis Caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, Ethiopia

  • Adugna Abera,
  • Tihitina Mamecha,
  • Ebise Abose,
  • Belachew Bokicho,
  • Agune Ashole,
  • Tesfahun Bishaw,
  • Abinet Mariyo,
  • Buzayehu Bogale,
  • Haileyesus Terefe,
  • Henok Tadesse,
  • Mahlet Belachew,
  • Hailemariam Difabachew,
  • Araya Eukubay,
  • Solomon Kinde,
  • Abraham Ali,
  • Feyesa Regasa,
  • Fikre Seife,
  • Zeyede Kebede,
  • Mesfin Wossen,
  • Getachew Tollera,
  • Mesay Hailu,
  • Nigus Manaye,
  • Nick Van Reet,
  • Gerardo Priotto,
  • Johan van Griensven,
  • Myrthe Pareyn,
  • Geremew Tasew

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3001.231319
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 30, no. 1
pp. 125 – 128

Abstract

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We report 4 cases of human African trypanosomiasis that occurred in Ethiopia in 2022, thirty years after the last previously reported case in the country. Two of 4 patients died before medicine became available. We identified the infecting parasite as Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. Those cases imply human African trypanosomiasis has reemerged.

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