Population Genetics of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense: Clonality and Diversity within and between Foci

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Duffy, Craig W ^a,e   MacLean, Lorna ^b   Sweeney, Lindsay ^a   Cooper, Anneli ^a   Turner, C Michael R ^c   Tait, Andy ^a   Sternberg, Jeremy ^b   Morrison, Liam J ^d   MacLeod, Annette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLONAL VARIATION; EPIDEMIC; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOSSINIDAE; HUMAN; MALAWI; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE; UGANDA; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALAWI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; UGANDA;

EID: 84888253753     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002526     Document Type: Article

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