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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-9-13
pubmed:abstractText
A total of 114 stocks of Trypanosoma congolense originating from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and Sudan, but including, for comparison, stocks from The Gambia, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Cameroun, were compared by isoenzyme electrophoresis for 6 enzymes. The zymodemes were grouped, both from a dendrogram and using a cladistic method, after calculating the dissimilarity, or distance, between profiles. Previous observations are broadly confirmed, the zymodemes clustering separately according to geographical origin and ecological zone. Thus, one group was composed almost entirely of East African stocks, and another of stocks from both East and West Africa, although each group was of savanna origin. A third group was composed of stocks from the humid, rain-forest zones of West Africa, and was particularly characterized by isoenzyme variants of superoxide dismutase and glucose-phosphate isomerase. Two stocks from the Kenyan coast formed a markedly separate group, which may be taxonomically distinct.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0031-1820
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
96 ( Pt 3)
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
475-86
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Trypanosoma congolense: the distribution of enzymic variants in east and west Africa.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medical Protozoology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, St Albans, Herts.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't