The isolation and genetic heterogeneity of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense from north-west Uganda.

doi:10.1016/0001-706x(93)90066-k

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The isolation and genetic heterogeneity of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense from north-west Uganda.

Acta tropica - 1 Jun 1993

Enyaru J C, Allingham R, Bromidge T, Kanmogne G D, Carasco J F

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Fifty-two samples of blood were taken from sleeping sickness patients in north-west Uganda. All samples failed to infect immunosuppressed mice. Ten cryopreserved blood samples were fed to laboratory bred Glossina morsitans morsitans; eight flies developed midgut infections from which procyclic cu...

Topics

Animals
DNA, Protozoan
Genotype
Humans
Isoenzymes
Mice
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
Trypanosoma brucei gambiense
Uganda

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