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ReviewTropical medicine and infectious disease2020

New Drugs for Human African Trypanosomiasis: A Twenty First Century Success Story.

Emily A Dickie, Federica Giordani, Matthew K Gould, Pascal Mäser, Christian Burri, Jeremy C Mottram, Srinivasa P S Rao, Michael P Barrett

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In one paragraph

Review in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06356974 (An Intervention Study to Evaluate the Impact of Treating gHAT Seropositive Subjects With Acoziborole on Transmission of T.b. Gambiense, and Obtain Further Safety Data on Acoziborole in gHAT Seropositive Individuals), which is not on this map. Cited by 73 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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73citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
14.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06356974 phase3not yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2024, after this paper: background citation

An Intervention Study to Evaluate the Impact of Treating gHAT Seropositive Subjects With Acoziborole on Transmission of T.b. Gambiense, and Obtain Further Safety Data on Acoziborole in gHAT Seropositive Individuals

TypeinterventionalSponsorDrugs for Neglected DiseasesRan2024 to 2027Enrolled2,500ConditionsHuman African TrypanosomiasisArmsTreatment of seropositive individuals (positive serology test, but parasitology not confirmed)
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

73 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 147 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Imidazo[1,2‑ACS omega · 2026
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  9. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  12. Cytological profiling of trypanocidal principles fromPhytomedicine plus : international journal of phytotherapy and phytopharmacology · 2025
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  19. Drug resistance in animal trypanosomiases: Epidemiology, mechanisms and control strategies.International journal for parasitology. Drugs and drug resistance · 2024
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13 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Emily A DickieWellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK.
Federica GiordaniWellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9964-281X
Matthew K GouldWellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK.
Pascal MäserSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstrasse 57, 4002 Basel, Switzerland.
Christian BurriSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstrasse 57, 4002 Basel, Switzerland.
Jeremy C MottramYork Biomedical Research Institute, Department of Biology, University of York, Wentworth Way, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5574-3766
Srinivasa P S RaoNovartis Institute for Tropical Diseases, 5300 Chiron Way, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7156-5725
Michael P BarrettWellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK.
Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology · GBSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute · CHNovartis (United States) · USUniversity of York · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/L018853/1Medical Research Council MR/S019650/1Wellcome Trust 104111/Z/14/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The twentieth century ended with human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) epidemics raging across many parts of Africa. Resistance to existing drugs was emerging, and many programs aiming to contain the disease had ground to a halt, given previous success against HAT and the competing priorities associated with other medical crises ravaging the continent. A series of dedicated interventions and the introduction of innovative routes to develop drugs, involving Product Development Partnerships, has led to a dramatic turnaround in the fight against HAT caused by

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acoziborolechemotherapyeliminationfexinidazolehuman African trypanosomiasispafuramidinesleeping sickness

Identifiers

PMID32092897
PMCPMC7157223
OpenAlexW3008871853

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