Species-specific probes for the identification of the African tsetse-transmitted trypanosomes

Parasitology

Volumn 136, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1501-1507

  Gibson, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African trypanosomiasis; Reservoir host; Trypanosoma brucei; Trypanosoma congolense; Trypanosoma simiae; Trypanosoma vivax

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; DNA PROBE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMA GODFREYI; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMA SIMIAE; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TSETSE FLY;

ANIMALS; DNA PROBES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES;

MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA SIMIAE; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX;

EID: 70350566679     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182009006179     Document Type: Review

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