Article
Human and animal Trypanosomes in Côte d'Ivoire form a single breeding population.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Capewell Paul, Cooper Anneli, Duffy Craig W, Tait Andy, Turner C Michael R, Gibson Wendy, Mehlitz Dieter, Macleod Annette
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Trypanosoma brucei is the causative agent of African Sleeping Sickness in humans and contributes to the related veterinary disease, Nagana. T. brucei is segregated into three subspecies based on host specificity, geography and pathology. T. b. brucei is limited to animals (excluding some primates) throughout sub-Saharan Africa and is non-infective to humans due to trypanolytic factors found in human...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
