Detection of trypanosomes in small ruminants and pigs in western Kenya: Important reservoirs in the epidemiology of sleeping sickness?

Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ng'ayo, Musa O ^a,b   Njiru, Zablon K ^c,d   Kenya, Eucharia U ^a   Muluvi, Geoffrey M ^a   Osir, Ellie O ^b   Masiga, Daniel K ^a,b  

^a KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

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

^c KENYA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Human African Trypanosomosis; Pigs; Reservoirs; Serum Resistance Associated (SRA) gene; Sleeping sickness; Small ruminants; Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense

Indexed keywords

SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BOVIDS; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAGELLATE; GEOGRAPHY; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; KENYA; LIVESTOCK; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SHEEP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMA SIMIAE; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 26844556167     PISSN: 14759292     EISSN: 14759292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9292-4-5     Document Type: Article

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