Isolation of Trypanosoma brucei from the monitor lizard (Varanus niloticus) in an endemic focus of rhodesian sleeping sickness in Kenya

Acta Tropica

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 137-148

  Njagu, Zipporah ^a   Mihok, Steve ^a   Kokwaro, Elizabeth ^b   Verloo, Didier ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^b KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Glossina fuscipes; Reservoirs; Sleeping sickness; Trypanosoma brucei; Trypanosoma congolense; Varanus niloticus

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

DISEASE PREVALENCE; LIZARD;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; KENYA; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; KENYA; LIZARDS; RATS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES;

KENYA;

GLOSSINA FUSCIPES; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; SQUAMATA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOZOON; VARANUS; VARANUS NILOTICUS; VICTORIA;

EID: 0033014702     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(98)00092-8     Document Type: Article

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