African sleeping sickness, an especially difficult and challenging killer, provides a good example.

非洲昏睡病尤其难以控制，是具有挑战性的一个杀手，该病是一个良好的例证。

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Studies of the enzyme CTP synthetase in the parasite Trypanosoma brucei have brought researchers closer to a cure for African sleeping sickness.

对于寄生虫布氏锥虫CTP合成酶的研究使研究者离成功治愈非洲嗜睡病又近了一步。

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Meyskens says that DFMO, which is short for difluoromethylornithine, was developed as a cancer medication, but is now used to treat African sleeping sickness.

Meyskens说，DFMO，α-二氟甲基鸟氨酸，是作为癌症治疗开发的，但现在用来治疗非洲昏睡病。

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"In areas where the sleeping sickness is still very prevalent such as remote areas of some central African countries, which are by the way very unstable areas, it will be also crucial to have simpler treatment and obviously oral treatment would be the best."

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Professor Ian McConnell, of Cambridge University, a member of the group that produced the report, said one example of the potential benefits would be the development of African cattle resistant to sleeping sickness.

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In one campaign, French doctors used six syringes to inject 80, 000 African workers with a medicine for sleeping sickness.

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