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Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense infection in a German traveller returning from the Masai Mara area, Kenya, January 2012 (Euro Surveill., abstract, edited)
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T Wolf (
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Citation style for this article: Wolf T, Wichelhaus T, G?ttig S, Kleine C, Brodt HR, Just-Nuebling G. Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense infection in a German traveller returning from the Masai Mara area, Kenya, January 2012. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(10):pii=20114. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=20114
Date of submission: 27 February 2012 <HR>In January 2012, a case of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) has been identified in Germany in a traveller returning from the Masai Mara area in Kenya. The 62-year-old man had travelled to the Masai Mara game park from 18 to 19 January 2012 and developed fever on 28 January. The infection with Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense was confirmed by laboratory testing three days hereafter.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 10, 08 March 2012
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Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense infection in a German traveller returning from the Masai Mara area, Kenya, January 2012
Rapid communications
Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense infection in a German traveller returning from the Masai Mara area, Kenya, January 2012
T Wolf (
- Department of Internal Medicine 2 ? Infectious Diseases, Hospital of the J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, Hospital of the J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Citation style for this article: Wolf T, Wichelhaus T, G?ttig S, Kleine C, Brodt HR, Just-Nuebling G. Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense infection in a German traveller returning from the Masai Mara area, Kenya, January 2012. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(10):pii=20114. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=20114
Date of submission: 27 February 2012 <HR>In January 2012, a case of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) has been identified in Germany in a traveller returning from the Masai Mara area in Kenya. The 62-year-old man had travelled to the Masai Mara game park from 18 to 19 January 2012 and developed fever on 28 January. The infection with Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense was confirmed by laboratory testing three days hereafter.