Use of a PCR assay for the specific and sensitive detection of Trypanosoma spp. in naturally infected dairy cattle in peri-urban Kampala, Uganda

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 849, Issue , 1998, Pages 21-31

  Clausens, P H ^a   Wiemann, A ^a   Patzelt, R ^a,b   Kakaire, D ^c   Poetzsch, C ^a,b   Peregrine, A ^d   Mehlitz, D ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Collaborative Research Unit ^*  (Uganda)

^c Livestock Health Research Institute (LIRI)   (Uganda)

^d INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANION EXCHANGE; CATTLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; UGANDA;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; NANNOMONAS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX;

EID: 0031871412     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb11029.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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