| In terms of public health and economic impact, American trypanosomiasis is the most important parasitic infection in Latin America. |
| Human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness is one of the most important but equally most neglected tropical infections. |
| The unit is active in the field of diagnosis of African trypanosomiasis for epidemiological as well as clinical purposes, treatment and control of the parasite in the host. |
| On the contrary, also traditional tropical diseases such as malaria, trypanosomiasis, leishmaniose, will retain our permanent attention. |
| Sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, is caused by infection with the protozoan, which is found in West and Central Africa, or the closely related subspecies, which is found in East Africa. |
| African trypanosomiasis, better known by the name sleeping sickness, is a good example of this. |
