Patterns in age-seroprevalence consistent with acquired immunity against Trypanosoma brucei in serengeti lions

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Welburn, Sue ^a   Picozzi, Kim ^a   Coleman, Paul G ^b   Packer, Craig ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; IMMUNITY; LABORATORY TEST; LION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; SEROPREVALENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE; TSETSE FLY; WILD ANIMAL;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; LIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS; TREES; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES;

EID: 65549136656     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000347     Document Type: Article

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