[Animal reservoir of Trypanosoma (Trypanozoon) brucei gambiense in Central africa].
The actual available data, from Central as well as from Western Africa, allow us to assert that animals are naturally carriers of T.b. gambiense. Strains from pigs, sheeps and goats have been isolated. However, the importance of animals in the central-west african sleeping sickness epidemiology is still to be specified.