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Genetic diversity among Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense isolates from Tanzania.
Parasitology - 1 Dec 1997
Komba E K, Kibona S N, Ambwene A K, Stevens J R, Gibson W C
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We compared 19 stocks of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense collected in 1991 and 1994 from Tanzania with representative stocks from other foci of Rhodesian sleeping sickness in Zambia, Kenya and Uganda. Stocks were characterized by isoenzyme electrophoresis, restriction fragment length polymorphisms in variant surface glycoprotein genes and random amplification of polymorphic DNA; the banding patterns obtained were...
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