Population genetics of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense: clonality and diversity within and between foci.

• Main Authors: Craig W Duffy (Author), Lorna MacLean (Author), Lindsay Sweeney (Author), Anneli Cooper (Author), C Michael R Turner (Author), Andy Tait (Author), Jeremy Sternberg (Author), Liam J Morrison (Author), Annette MacLeod (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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African trypanosomes are unusual among pathogenic protozoa in that they can undergo their complete morphological life cycle in the tsetse fly vector with mating as a non-obligatory part of this development. Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, which infects humans and livestock in East and Southern Afric...