Detection of T.b. rhodesiense trypanosomes in humans and domestic animals in South East Uganda by amplification of serum resistance-associated gene

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1081, Issue , 2006, Pages 311-319

  Enyaru, John Charles K ^a   Matovu, Enock ^a   Nerima, Barbra ^a   Akol, Margaret ^a   Sebikali, Charles ^a  

^a Livestock Health Research Institute Uganda   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Amplification; Detection; Domestic animals; Humans; Serum resistance associated gene; Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL DNA; SERUM RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; CATTLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOON DETECTION; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMA THEILERI; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; UGANDA;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOZOON;

EID: 33845718260     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1373.041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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