Trypanosoma brucei gambiense: Study of population genetic structure of Central African stocks using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP)

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 172-180

  Simo, G ^a   Cuny, G ^b   Demonchy, R ^b   Herder, S ^b  

^a Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plant Studies Yaounde   (Cameroon)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

AFLP; Epidemiology; Genetic variability; Human African Trypanosomiasis; Sleeping sickness focus; Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AFRICA; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SWINE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE;

EID: 37349031772     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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