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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 cultures were established in vitro. Isoenzyme electrophoretic analysis of 9 enzymes revealed that 7 of the 8 trypanosome...
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