Five-fold increase in Trypanosoma congolense isolates resistant to diminazene aceturate over a seven-year period in Eastern Zambia

Drug Resistance Updates

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 205-209

  Delespaux, Vincent ^a   Dinka, Hunduma ^a   Masumu, Justin ^b   Van den Bossche, Peter ^a,b   Geerts, Stanny ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Diminazene; Drug resistance; Molecular tools; PCR RFLP; Trypanosoma congolense; Zambia

Indexed keywords

DIMINAZENE ACETURATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ZAMBIA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DIMINAZENE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; ZAMBIA;

EID: 55949105786     PISSN: 13687646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drup.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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