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The Domestic Fowl of Uganda as a Host for Trypanosomes of the Brucei Group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

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

Extract

For many years it has been known that the domestic fowl, together with some other species of birds, is susceptible to experimental infection by trypanosomes of the brucei group. The successful experiments were performed in European laboratories with strains whose virulence had been greatly exalted as the result of long maintenance in small laboratory animals. Infection was induced by inoculation of infected blood into the comb, the peritoneum or a vein. A natural infection of birds with these trypanosomes has, as far as I know, never yet been reported.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1933

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