The genome sequence of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, causative agent of chronic human african trypanosomiasis.

• Main Authors: Andrew P Jackson (Author), Mandy Sanders (Author), Andrew Berry (Author), Jacqueline McQuillan (Author), Martin A Aslett (Author), Michael A Quail (Author), Bridget Chukualim (Author), Paul Capewell (Author), Annette MacLeod (Author), Sara E Melville (Author), Wendy Gibson (Author), J David Barry (Author), Matthew Berriman (Author), Christiane Hertz-Fowler (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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Trypanosoma brucei gambiense is the causative agent of chronic Human African Trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness, a disease endemic across often poor and rural areas of Western and Central Africa. We have previously published the genome sequence of a T. b. brucei isolate, and have now employed a co...