Article
Epidemiological relationships of Trypanosoma brucei stocks from south east Uganda: evidence for different population structures in human infective and non-human infective isolates.
Parasitology - 1 Jul 1994
Hide G, Welburn S C, Tait A, Maudlin I
Abstract excerpt
This study represents an analysis of trypanosome strains circulating within a confined location over a short period of time during a sleeping sickness epidemic in S.E. Uganda. A large number of Trypanosoma brucei isolates (88) were collected from a variety of hosts (man, cattle, pigs and tsetse)...
Topics
- Animals
- Blotting, Southern
- Cattle
- Cluster Analysis
- DNA Probes
- DNA, Protozoan
- Disease Outbreaks
- Disease Reservoirs
- Genotype
- Humans
- Immune Sera
- Isoenzymes
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Swine
- Trypanosoma brucei brucei
- Trypanosomiasis, African
- Tsetse Flies