Welburn Susan C, Coleman Paul G, Maudlin Ian, Fèvre Eric M, Odiit Martin, Eisler Mark C
Centre for Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Midlothian, UK.
Trends Parasitol. 2006 Mar;22(3):123-8. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2006.01.011. Epub 2006 Feb 7.
There is an urgent need for cost-effective strategies for the sustainable control of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (Rhodesian) sleeping sickness, which is a fatal zoonotic disease that has caused devastating epidemics during the past century. Sleeping sickness continues to be controlled by crisis management, using active case detection, treatment and vector control - activities that occur only during major epidemics; during the intervening periods, farmers and communities must fend for themselves. There are several methods for assessing the burden of this disease and there is a series of farmer-led methodologies that can be applied to reduce the burden of human and animal trypanosomiases.
对于布氏罗得西亚锥虫（罗德西亚）昏睡病的可持续控制，迫切需要具有成本效益的策略。罗德西亚昏睡病是一种致命的人畜共患病，在过去一个世纪中曾引发毁灭性的疫情。昏睡病目前仍通过危机管理来控制，即采用主动病例检测、治疗和病媒控制——这些活动仅在重大疫情期间开展；在疫情间歇期，农民和社区只能自行应对。评估这种疾病负担的方法有多种，并且有一系列由农民主导的方法可用于减轻人类和动物锥虫病的负担。
