The sheep as a potential reservoir of human trypanosomiasis in the Republic of the Congo.
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The identical electrophoretic isoenzyme patterns of a human-plasma-resistant Trypanozoon stock from a sheep and of two other stocks from trypanosomiasis patients in the Congo Republic indicated that the sheep stock was probably infective to man. These, and one further human stock from the Congo, closely resembled stocks isolated from man in Liberia and Ivory Coast.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
دوره 77 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1983