Trypanosome Diversity in Wildlife Species from the Serengeti and Luangwa Valley Ecosystems

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Auty, Harriet ^a,b,d   Anderson, Neil E ^a   Picozzi, Kim ^a   Lembo, Tiziana ^a,b   Mubanga, Joseph ^a   Hoare, Richard ^c   Fyumagwa, Robert D ^c   Mable, Barbara ^b   Hamill, Louise ^a   Cleaveland, Sarah ^a,b   Welburn, Susan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c TANZANIA WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^d SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S; RNA 28S; RNA 5.8S;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA GODFREYI; TRYPANOSOMA SIMIAE; TRYPANOSOMA THEILERI; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, RRNA; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANZANIA; TRYPANOSOMA; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84869051829     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001828     Document Type: Article

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