Phylogeography and taxonomy of Trypanosoma brucei

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Balmer, Oliver ^a,b,c   Beadell, Jon S ^b   Gibson, Wendy ^d   Caccone, Adalgisa ^b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; KINETOPLAST; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; TAXONOMY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE;

EID: 79952471835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000961     Document Type: Article

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