[Sleeping sickness in children at Bobo-Dioulasso Hospital Center: apropos of 3 cases].

The authors report three observations of trypanosomiasis in children aged 3 to 13 years from Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. Two cases were imported from Côte d'Ivoire and one originated from an old endemic area of Bobo-Dioulasso region in Burkina Faso. Clinical features were comparable to classical descriptions in adults but neurological findings were dominant. Two children were at the lymphatic stage. Treatment with melarsoprol in two cases and eflornithine in one case led to complete recovery. Active epidemiologic surveillance of this zoonosis should be maintained and the devastating pandemic of the beginning of the century should be remembered.