| isolation of trypanosoma brucei from the monitor lizard (varanus niloticus) in an endemic focus of rhodesian sleeping sickness in kenya. | monitor lizards were sampled along the shores of lake victoria to detect natural infections of potentially human-infective trypanosomes. in an area with endemic rhodesian sleeping sickness, one of 19 lizards was infected (busia, kenya). six of ten lizards also showed indirect evidence of infection with trypanosoma brucei (antibody elisa). in an area with no recent history of human disease (rusinga island), no parasites were found and no antibodies to t. brucei were detected. the isolate was iden ... | 1999 | 10206114 |