Human African Trypanosomiasis (African Trypanosomiasis, African Sleeping Sickness)
Are You Confident of the Diagnosis? What you should be alert for in the history Patients develop human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) only after visiting rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. A painful chancre may develop at the site of a Tsetse fly bite. A targetoid macular trypanid (Figure 1) may accompany or follow intermittent high fevers.…
