Domestic pigs as potential reservoirs of human and animal trypanosomiasis in Northern Tanzania

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hamill, Louise C ^a   Kaare, Magai T ^b   Welburn, Susan C ^a   Picozzi, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b TANZANIA WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

AAT; HAT; PCR; Pigs; Sleeping sickness; T. b. rhodesiense; Tanzania; Trypanosomiasis; Trypanosomosis

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CATTLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC PIG; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANZANIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BOS; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA GODFREYI; TRYPANOSOMA SIMIAE; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SUS SCROFA; TANZANIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EID: 84887363509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-322     Document Type: Article

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