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Population genetics of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense: clonality and diversity within and between foci.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 Nov 2013
Duffy Craig W, MacLean Lorna, Sweeney Lindsay, Cooper Anneli, Turner C Michael R, Tait Andy, Sternberg Jeremy, Morrison Liam J, MacLeod Annette
Abstract excerpt
African trypanosomes are unusual among pathogenic protozoa in that they can undergo their complete morphological life cycle in the tsetse fly vector with mating as a non-obligatory part of this development. Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, which infects humans and livestock in East and Southern Africa, has classically been described as a host-range variant of the non-human infective Trypanosoma brucei that occurs...
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