| detection of trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense in animals from sleeping sickness foci in east africa using the serum resistance associated (sra) gene. | the human serum resistance associated (sra) gene has been found exclusively in trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, allowing the unequivocal detection of this pathogen in reservoir hosts and the tsetse vector without recourse to laborious strain characterisation procedures. we investigated the presence of the sra gene in 264 t. brucei ssp. isolates from humans, domestic animals and glossina pallidipes from foci of human trypanosomiasis in kenya and uganda. the sra gene was present in all isolates tha ... | 2004 | 15099811 |