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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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-03-01
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Series: | Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/5/1/42 |