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Trypanosoma gambiense in Monkeys and Ruminants; Prolonged Infection, Immunity and Superinfection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

H. Lyndhurst Duke
Affiliation:
From the Human Trypanosomiasis Institute, Entebbe, Uganda.

Extract

In the Final Report of the League of Nations International Commission on Sleeping Sickness (1928) certain tentative conclusions were expressed about the behaviour of T. gambiense, recently isolated from man, in the blood of monkeys and of certain domestic ruminants. These conclusions, which were intended primarily to serve as a basis for further researches, were set forth in the Summary of Part I of that Report, and read as follows:

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1931

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