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2163493

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-8-8
pubmed:abstractText
Trypanosoma evansi is difficult to distinguish from other members of subgenus Trypanozoon, save for its inability to develop cyclically in the tsetse fly and its characteristic kinetoplast DNA (kDNA). We have used cloned kDNA minicircle fragments as specific probes to distinguish T. evansi from other trypanosomes of subgenus Trypanozoon. Two probes were required, each specific for one of the subgroups of T. evansi previously described. Probe A reacted only with the major isoenzyme group of T. evansi stocks, which have minicircle type A and occur in South America, Kenya, Sudan, Nigeria and Kuwait. The probe did not hybridise with various Trypanosoma brucei spp. stocks, Trypanosoma vivax, Trypanosoma congolense or Trypanosoma simiae, nor with trypanosomes of the minor isoenzyme group of T. evansi stocks found in Kenya with type B minicircles. Probe B was specific for the latter. The probes were sensitive down to a level of 100 trypanosomes in a dot blot. These probes thus provide a simple means of distinguishing T. evansi from T. brucei spp. using comparatively few trypanosomes and without resort to tsetse transmission experiments.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0166-6851
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
40
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
279-83
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Specific probes for Trypanosoma (Trypanozoon) evansi based on kinetoplast DNA minicircles.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, School of Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, Langford, U.K.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't