Are fitness costs associated with resistance to human serum in Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense?

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 311-315

  Coleman, Paul G ^a   Welburn, Susan C ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOSSINA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE LOCALIZATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; RESERVOIR; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE;

ANIMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE;

EID: 2942511572     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2004.04.015     Document Type: Article

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