Hosts of Glossina fuscipes fuscipes and G. pallidipes in areas of western Kenya with endemic sleeping sickness, as determined using an egg-yolk (IgY) ELISA

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 225-232

  Wamwiri, F N ^a   Nkwengulila, G ^b   Clausen, P H ^c  

^a KENYA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN Y; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HOST SELECTION; KENYA; NONHUMAN; TSETSE FLY; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; CATTLE; CHICKEN; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPTILE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVIDAE; GLOSSINA FUSCIPES FUSCIPES; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; CATTLE; CHICKENS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INSECT VECTORS; KENYA; REPTILES; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES;

EID: 34547758551     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485907X156979     Document Type: Article

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