trypanosomiasis
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of trypanosomiasis
First recorded in 1900–05; trypanosome + -iasis
Example Sentences
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In sub-Saharan Africa, diseases including trypanosomiasis and ehrlichiosis may have created serious obstacles for dogs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
And in 2020, the World Health Organization hopes to eliminate sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, as a public health problem.
From Nature ● Dec. 19, 2019
Last year, 2,184 cases of sleeping sickness, also known as human African trypanosomiasis, were reported worldwide, down from 6,747 in 2011.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2017
African sleeping sickness, also known as African trypanosomiasis, is caused by a microscopic wormlike parasite spread exclusively by the tsetse fly.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 23, 2016
Good account of internal anatomy of this fly, important because of its relation to trypanosomiasis.
From Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases by Rennie Wilbur Doane
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