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IN an account of the epidemiology of human trypanosomiasis in south-east Uganda, Robertson and Baker1 have referred to the momentous discovery by Bruce et al. 2 of the association between Glossina palpalis fuscipes Newstead and the devastating epidemic due to Trypanosoma gambiense in the early years of this century. Before the occurrence of T. rhodesiense Stephens and Fantham in epidemic form in 1940 3 and its persistence afterwards, sleeping sickness in south-east Uganda was due apparently to T. gambiense and was considered to be transmitted only by G. palpalis.
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SOUTHON, H., ROBERTSON, D. Isolation of Trypanosoma rhodesiense from Wild Glossina palpalis . Nature 189, 411–412 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189411a0
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