African trypanosomiasis
African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness is a tropical disease spread by the bite of an infected tsetse fly. It can be fatal if not treated.
TDR is completing studies of the efficacy and safety of a shortened pentamidine treatment for stage 1 of the disease (3 days instead of 7) and nifurtimox-eflornithine combination treatment for stage 2 of the disease.
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