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He gave no history of a painful insect bite but presented with classical early signs of sleeping sickness (a primary chancre, regional lymphadenopathy, circinate erythema and a cyclical fever pattern). His condition worsened in the next week and trypanosomes were observed in a blood sample. He was aeromedically evacuated to Johannesburg, where Stage One Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense infection was confirmed; he also had renal and liver failure, pancytopenia and heart block. He was treated with intravenous suramin. He recovered fully over the next 5 months.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Recommendations<\/jats:title><jats:p>Medical officers deploying to eastern and southeastern Africa must be familiar with the common presenting signs and symptoms of T b rhodesiense sleeping sickness, and should have access to a reliable local microscopy service at all times. Confirmed sleeping sickness requires immediate transfer to a tertiary diagnostic and treatment centre, where suramin (for T b rhodesiense infection) or pentamidine (for T b gambiense) and also melarsoprol (for Stage Two disease) must be immediately available.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/jramc-152-03-08","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,3,19]],"date-time":"2013-03-19T23:43:32Z","timestamp":1363736612000},"page":"156-160","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["African Trypanosomiasis In A British Soldier"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"152","author":[{"given":"AM","family":"Croft","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"CJ","family":"Jackson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"HM","family":"Friend","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"EJ","family":"Minton","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2006,1,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1003","article-title":"Insects in disease transmission","volume-title":"tropical medicine","author":"Gubler, D.J.","year":"2000","unstructured":"Gubler DJ. 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