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Detection of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense in sleeping sickness suspects by PCR amplification of expression‐site‐associated genes 6 and 7
1 Oct 1999
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We have developed a sensitive and specific method to identify Trypanosoma brucei ssp. using PCR to amplify conserved expression-site-associated gene 6 and 7 DNA target sequences. Amplification of 10% of the DNA in a single trypanosome produced sufficient PCR product to be visible as a band in an agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide. We analysed 59 blood samples of serologically positive cases of sleeping...
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