DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATION OF PCR IN GOATS EXPERIMENTALLY INFECTED WITH TRYPANOSOMA-VIVAX

Authors
DEALMEIDA PJLP NDAO M VANMEIRVENNE N GEERTS S
Citation
Pjlp. Dealmeida et al., DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATION OF PCR IN GOATS EXPERIMENTALLY INFECTED WITH TRYPANOSOMA-VIVAX, Acta Tropica, 66(1), 1997, pp. 45-50
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Tropical Medicine",Parasitiology
Journal title
Acta Tropica → ACNP
ISSN journal
0001706X
Volume
66
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
45 - 50
Database
ISI
SICI code
0001-706X(1997)66:1<45:DEOPIG>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Six goats were experimentally infected with a stock of Trypanosoma viv ax. Parasitaemia was weekly monitored by buffy coat and wet blood film examination during a period of 15 weeks and another 3 weeks following drug-treatment. Dried blood samples were tested by the polymerase cha in reaction (PCR), using an extraction method with Chelex(R) 100 (BioR ad). PCR proved consistently more sensitive than the parasitological t echniques. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.