Extravascular Dermal Trypanosomes in Suspected and Confirmed Cases of gambiense Human African Trypanosomiasis.
Mariame CamaraAlseny M'mah SoumahHamidou IlboudoChristelle TravailléCaroline ClucasAnneli CooperNono-Raymond Kuispond SwarOumou CamaraIbrahim SadissouEstefania Calvo AlvarezAline CrouzolsJean-Mathieu BartVincent JamonneauMamadou CamaraAnnette MacLeodBruno BuchetonBrice RotureauPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
Our results highlight the skin as a potential reservoir for African trypanosomes, with implications for our understanding of this disease's epidemiology in the context of its planned elimination and underlining the skin as a novel target for gHAT diagnostics.