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Diagnostic evaluation of PCR in goats experimentally infected with Trypanosoma vivax
P J de Almeida1, M Ndao, N Van Meirvenne
1Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium. palmeid@itg.be
Acta Tropica
|June 24, 1997
Abstract:
Six goats were experimentally infected with a stock of Trypanosoma vivax. 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 chain reaction (PCR), using an extraction method with Chelex 100 (BioRad). PCR proved consistently more sensitive than the parasitological techniques.