Development of a safer laboratory vervet monkey model for the study of human African trypanosomiasis

• Main Authors: Maxwell Waema (Author), Naomi Maina (Author), Simon Karanja (Author), Beatrice Gachie (Author), Maina Ngotho (Author), John Kagira (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: AOSIS, 2014-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: There are three subspecies of Trypanosoma brucei: T. b. gambiense, T. b. rhodesiense and T. b. brucei. The first two are infectious to humans, whilst T. b. brucei is not. Identifying an animal model of T. b. brucei that mimics human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) would enable researchers...