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Parasites and blood-meal hosts of the tsetse fly in Tanzania: a metagenomics study
22 Jun 2022
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BACKGROUND: Tsetse flies can transmit various Trypanosoma spp. that cause trypanosomiasis in humans, wild animals, and domestic animals. Amplicon deep sequencing of the 12S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene can be used to detect mammalian tsetse hosts, and the 18S rRNA gene can be used to detect all associated eukaryotic pathogens, including Trypanosoma spp. METHODS: Tsetse flies were collected from the Serengeti...
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