Using molecular data for epidemiological inference: Assessing the prevalence of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense in tsetse in Serengeti, Tanzania

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Auty, Harriet K ^a,b   Picozzi, Kim ^a   Malele, Imna ^c   Torr, Steve J ^d   Cleaveland, Sarah ^b   Welburn, Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Research Institute   (Tanzania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISSECTION; FEMALE; GLOSSINA; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANZANIA; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; TSETSE FLY; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; EVALUATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; DISEASE VECTORS; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES;

EID: 84856560750     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001501     Document Type: Article

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