Trypanosoma brucei: Comparison of circulating strains in an endemic and an epidemic area of a sleeping sickness focus

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-29

  Hide, Geoff ^a   Angus, Stephen D ^b   Holmes, Peter H ^b   Maudlin, Ian ^b   Welburn, Susan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0032077663     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4265     Document Type: Article

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