Trypanosoma brucei s.l.: Characterisation of stocks from Central Africa by PCR analysis of mobile genetic elements

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 353-362

  Simo, G ^a,b   Herder, S ^d   Njiokou, F ^a,c   Asonganyi, T ^c   Tilley, A ^e   Cuny, G ^d  

^a Organisation de Coordination pour la Lutte contre les Endemies en Afrique Centrale Cameroon   (Cameroon)

^b Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plant Studies Yaounde   (Cameroon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mobile genetic elements; Molecular epidemiology; PCR; Sleeping sickness; Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AFRICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA GAMBIENSE;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; VARIATION (GENETICS);

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE;

EID: 20444410350     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2005.04.001     Document Type: Article

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