From Colonial Research Spirit to Global Commitment: Bayer and African Sleeping Sickness in the Mirror of History

In the early 20th century, a series of epidemics across equatorial Africa brought African sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis, HAT) to the attention of the European colonial administrations. This disease presented an exciting challenge for microbiologists across Europe to study the dise...

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Main Authors: Ulrich-Dietmar Madeja, Ulrike Schroeder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-03-01
Series:Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/5/1/42