Sleeping sickness-A re-emerging disease in the Serengeti?

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 117-124

  Kaare, Magai T ^a,b   Picozzi, Kim ^b   Mlengeya, Titus ^c   Fèvre, Eric M ^b   Mellau, Lesakit S ^a   Mtambo, Madundo M ^a   Cleaveland, Sarah ^b   Welburn, Susan C ^b  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Tanzania National Parks   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Animal reservoir; Emerging disease; Public health; Sleeping sickness; T.b.rhodisiense; Warthog; Zoonotic

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HEALTH; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CATTLE DISEASE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; HEALTH SURVEY; HERD; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE DISEASE; TANZANIA; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; WARTHOG; WILD ANIMAL; WILDLIFE;

EID: 33846842181     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2006.01.014     Document Type: Article

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