Trypanosoma brucei s.l.: Microsatellite markers revealed high level of multiple genotypes in the mid-guts of wild tsetse flies of the Fontem sleeping sickness focus of Cameroon

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 272-278

  Simo, Gustave ^a   Njitchouang, Guy Roger ^b   Njiokou, Flobert ^b   Cuny, Gerard ^c   Asonganyi, Tazoacha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Microsatellite markers; Multiple genotypes; Sleeping sickness; Trypanosoma brucei; Tsetse fly mid gut

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TSETSE FLY; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CAMEROON; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES;

GLOSSINA (GENUS); MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE;

EID: 79956069448     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2011.02.023     Document Type: Article

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