Spontaneous cure of domestic pigs experimentally infected by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense: Implications for the control of sleeping sickness

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-11

  Penchenier, L ^a   Alhadji, D ^b   Bahebegue S ^b   Simo, G ^b   Laveissiere C ^c   Cuny, G ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

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

^c Centre IRD de Pointe Noire   (Congo)

Author keywords

Animal reservoir; Pig; Self cure; Sleeping sickness; Trypanosoma brucei gambiense; Tsetse control

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; FEMALE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECORDING; RESERVOIR; SCREENING; SEROLOGY; SWINE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TSETSE FLY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CARRIER STATE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; MALE; PARASITEMIA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES;

ANIMALIA; GLOSSINA (SUBGENUS); SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE;

EID: 24144476237     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2005.04.034     Document Type: Article

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