Researchers have made a further step toward understanding sleeping sickness – a chronic disease caused by Trypanosoma parasites, which affect the human central nervous system. The team have generated a high-quality draft genome sequence for the strain of Trypanosoma brucei that is responsible for almost all reported cases of human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness.
The study is published on April 13 in the open access journal, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.