Identity of Trypanozoon stocks isolated from man and a domestic dog in Liberia.
The isoenzyme patterns (electrophoresis on thin-layer starch gel) and the human serum resistance (blood incubation infectivity test) of a Trypanozoon stock from a dog and 14 stocks from man in Liberia were examined. The complete conformity of criteria for man-infectivity of the dog stock with 5 human stocks and the very close similarity to the 9 remaining stocks from the same epidemiological locality indicates the dog as a reservoir host of gambiense sleeping sickness.
D000410:Alanine Transaminase / Q000032:analysis; D000626:Aminopeptidases / Q000032:analysis; D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases / Q000032:analysis; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000469:parasitology*; D004285:Dogs; D006801:Humans; D007106:Immune Sera / Q000494:pharmacology; D007988:Liberia; D014345:Trypanosoma / Q000145:classification* / Q000201:enzymology / Q000276:immunology; D014353:Trypanosomiasis, African / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000662:veterinary
D007106:Immune Sera; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases; D000410:Alanine Transaminase; D000626:Aminopeptidases