Trypanosome diversity in wildlife species from the serengeti and Luangwa Valley ecosystems.

• Main Authors: Harriet Auty (Author), Neil E Anderson (Author), Kim Picozzi (Author), Tiziana Lembo (Author), Joseph Mubanga (Author), Richard Hoare (Author), Robert D Fyumagwa (Author), Barbara Mable (Author), Louise Hamill (Author), Sarah Cleaveland (Author), Susan C Welburn (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: The importance of wildlife as reservoirs of African trypanosomes pathogenic to man and livestock is well recognised. While new species of trypanosomes and their variants have been identified in tsetse populations, our knowledge of trypanosome species that are circulating in wildlife popu...