Landmarks in the evolution of technologies for identifying trypanosomes in tsetse flies

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 388-394

  Enyaru, John C ^a   Ouma, Johnson O ^b   Malele, Imna I ^c   Matovu, Enock ^a   Masiga, Daniel K ^d  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b KENYA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Research Institute   (Tanzania)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; ISOENZYME; RIBOSOME RNA; SATELLITE DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA GAMBIENSE; TSETSE FLY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; GLOSSINIDAE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRANSMISSION; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

ANIMALS; DNA, SATELLITE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES;

GLOSSINA (GENUS);

EID: 77955049235     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2010.04.011     Document Type: Review

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