Sleeping Sickness (African Trypanosomiasis): Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Differential diagnoses of African trypanosomiasis.

Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).

  • Brucellosis – infectious disease caused by various types of the genus Brucella.
  • Infectious mononucleosis (synonyms: Pfeiffer’s glandular fever; EBV; EBV infection; Epstein-Barr virus infection) – infection with a virus of the herpes virus family.
  • Leptospirosis (Weil’s disease) – infectious disease caused by leptospires, belonging to the bacteria.
  • Malaria – infectious disease caused by plasmodia (parasitic protozoa), which occurs mainly in tropical and subtropical regions.
  • Paratyphoid – infectious disease caused by Salmonella Paratyphi A, B, or C; attenuated clinical picture of typhoid fever.
  • Typhoid fever – infectious disease caused by the serovar Typhi of the bacterial species Salmonella enterica.
  • Visceral leishmaniasis (synonyms: Dum-Dum fever,Black fever or Kala-azar; infectious disease caused by obligate intracellular protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania (pathogens are L. donovani, in Europe L. infantum); it is thereby the internal organs (Latin viscera = viscera) are affected.

Neoplasms – tumor diseases (C00-D48).

  • Lymphoma – malignant neoplasms originating from the lymphatic system.

Psyche – nervous system (F00-F99; G00-G99).