Article
Multiple-strain infections of Trypanosoma brucei across Africa.
Acta tropica - 1 Sept 2008
Balmer Oliver, Caccone Adalgisa
Abstract excerpt
It is becoming increasingly clear that parasitic infections frequently contain multiple strains of the same parasite species. This may have important consequences for the parasite dynamics in the host and thus alter disease and transmission dynamics. In Trypanosoma brucei, the causal agent of human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), multiple-strain infections have previously been demonstrated to occur....
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.