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A high infection rate of Trypanosoma brucei subgroup in Glossina fuscipes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

A. Rogers ,
E. N. Kenyanjui  and
A. K. Wiggwah
A. Rogers
Affiliation:
East African Trypanosomiasis Research Organization, Tororo, Uganda
E. N. Kenyanjui
Affiliation:
East African Trypanosomiasis Research Organization, Tororo, Uganda
A. K. Wiggwah
Affiliation:
East African Trypanosomiasis Research Organization, Tororo, Uganda
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A survey in Busoga District, Uganda, where an outbreak of sleeping sickness was detected, has yielded an infection rate with T. brucei subgroup in G. fuscipes of 4.8%. Isolation of the infected flies was by feeding of the flies on mice, followed by trituration and inoculation of a suspension of the triturated flies into mice. The mice were treated with cyclophosphamide to reduce the immune response. The percentage infection as determined by inoculation of triturate was 4.1%, whilst that by feeding on mice was 1–8%. Amongst the 19 strains of T. brucei subgroup isolated, four were identified as T. rhodesiense by the BIIT method.

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Parasitology , Volume 65 , Issue 1 , August 1972 , pp. 143 - 146
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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