TY - JOUR AU - Simarro, Pere AU - Cecchi, Giuliano AU - Franco, José AU - Paone, Massimo AU - Fèvre, Eric AU - Diarra, Abdoulaye AU - Postigo, José AU - Mattioli, Raffaele AU - Jannin, Jean T1 - Risk for Human African Trypanosomiasis, Central Africa, 2000–2009 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2011 VL - 17 IS - 12 SP - 2322 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Comprehensive georeference records for human African trypanosomiasis in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon were combined with human population layers to estimate a kernel-smoothed relative risk function. Five risk categories were mapped, and ≈3.5 million persons were estimated to be at risk for this disease. KW - human African trypanosomiasis KW - Trypanosoma brucei gambiense KW - sleeping sickness KW - epidemiology KW - tropical medicine KW - medical geography KW - geographic information systems KW - parasites KW - central Africa KW - Central African Republic KW - Cameroon KW - Chad KW - Congo KW - Equatorial Guinea KW - Gabon DO - 10.3201/eid1712.110921 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/12/11-0921_article ER - End of Reference