Wild chimpanzees are infected by Trypanosoma brucei

Although wild chimpanzees and other African great apes live in regions endemic for African sleeping sickness, very little is known about their trypanosome infections, mainly due to major difficulties in obtaining their blood samples. In present work, we established a diagnostic ITS1-based PCR assay...

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Main Authors: Jirků, Milan, Votýpka, Jan, Petrželková, Klára J., Jirků-Pomajbíková, Kateřina, Kriegová, Eva, Vodička, Roman, Lankester, Felix, Leendertz, Siv Aina J., Wittig, Roman M., Boesch, Christophe, Modrý, David, Ayala, Francisco J., Leendertz, Fabian H., Lukeš, Julius
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4477118/