Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense transmitted by a single tsetse fly bite in vervet monkeys as a model of human African trypanosomiasis

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Thuita, John K ^a   Kagira, John M ^a   Mwangangi, David ^a   Matovu, Enock ^b   Turner, C M R ^c   Masiga, Daniel ^d,e  

^a KARI TRC   (Kenya)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^e KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE; INSECT BITE; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITEMIA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; TSETSE FLY; XENODIAGNOSIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CERCOPITHECUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; MALE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES;

EID: 48949118032     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000238     Document Type: Article

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