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High Prevalence of Drug Resistance in Animal Trypanosomes without a History of Drug Exposure

BACKGROUND: Trypanosomosis caused by Trypanosoma congolense is a major constraint to animal health in sub-Saharan Africa. Unfortunately, the treatment of the disease is impaired by the spread of drug resistance. Resistance to diminazene aceturate (DA) in T. congolense is linked to a mutation modifyi...

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Autores principales: Chitanga, Simbarashe, Marcotty, Tanguy, Namangala, Boniface, Van den Bossche, Peter, Van Den Abbeele, Jan, Delespaux, Vincent
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3243716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22206039
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001454