Source data.

The data file presents all the source data used in this study. Group 1: main groups; Group 2: with sub-groups based on immune trypanolysis test results (TL) and HAT stages; Timepoint: enrolment, follow-up 1 or follow-up 2; Screening code: from the national programmes; TrypaDerm ID: individual identifier for the present study; Focus: Bonon, Boffa, Forecariah or Sinfra; Delta HLA-G halos: Delta number of HLA-G halos as compared to the paired control slide; Delta HLA-G granular spots: Delta number of HLA-G granular spots as compared to the paired control slide; Mean sHLA-G concentration: in ng/ ml; Mean.concentration_Cl: 95% confidence intervalle in ng/ ml; Age: in years; Sex: female (0) or male (1); HAT.cases.in.the.family: occurrence of any confirmed HAT cases in the family since 2010; Swollen.LN: occurrence of swollen cervical lymph nodes; CATTwb: result of the card agglutination test for trypanosomiasis on whole blood; CATTp: result of the card agglutination test for trypanosomiasis on plasma with an end titer of at least 1/4; TDR.SD.HAT.result: result of the associated rapid diagnostic test for gHAT on blood (SD Bioline HAT, Abbott Bioline HAT 2.0 or HAT Sero-K-SeT); LN.aspirate.result: result of the parasitological observation of the lymph node aspirate; mAECTbc.result: result of the mini-anion exchange centrifugation test; mAECTbc.number.parasite: number of parasites detected in mini-anion exchange centrifugation test; CSF.result: result of the parasitological observation of the cerebrospinal fluid; CSF.result.number.parasite: number of parasites detected in parasitological observation of the cerebrospinal fluid; No.WBC.in.CSF: number of white blood cells detected in the cerebrospinal fluid; LiTat.1.3, LiTat.1.5, LiTat.1.6, and TL.total: results of the immune trypanolysis tests (TL) for detecting each or all variable antigen types, respectively; ISG65.IHC.FINAL.High.thresholds: results of the immunohistochemistry analysis with the anti-ISG65 detecting T. brucei parasites in skin sections; 1: yes/ presence/ positive; 0: no/ absence/ negative; NA: not available/ not done; NI: not interpretable. (XLSX)