G. V. Sobolevsky. Sleeping sickness. (From personal observations and impressions in the Congo and Bor-el-Gazol). Proceedings and protocols Imp. Kavk. honey. Tot. October 1908-Jan. 1909. Tiflis

Abstract

The article contains travel notes about the nature of the Congo and the life of the Negroes inhabiting it. Information about sleeping sickness (Trypanozomiasis humana), due to circumstances, is limited to a description of the fly Glossina palpalis (carrier of infection) and a list of symptoms that the author observed with this disease in his random patients.

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Статья содержитъ путевыя замѣтки о природѣ Конго и бытѣ населяющихъ его негровъ. Свѣдѣнія о сонной болѣзни (Trypanozomiasis humana), въ силу обстоятельствъ, ограничиваются описаніемъ мухи Glossina palpalis (переносчикъ инфекціи) и перечнемъ симптомовъ, которые авторъ наблюдалъ при этой болѣзни у своихъ случайныхъ паціентовъ.