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      Distribution of Trypanosoma congolense in infected multimammate rats (Mastomys coucha): light and electron microscopical studies

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      Veterinary Parasitology
      Elsevier BV

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          In an attempt to determine whether Trypanosoma congolense occurs both within and outside the blood vessels in an infected animal host, multimammate rats (Mastomys coucha) were infected with T. congolense and samples from spleen, lymph nodes, bone marrow, liver, kidney, lungs, brain, heart, intestines, ovaries and testes were collected. The tissue samples were fixed and processed for light and electron microscopical examination. In all the tissues examined, trypanosomes were found only within the lumen of large and small blood vessels, capillaries and sinuses. It is concluded that following entry into the blood circulation after intra-peritoneal infection of M. coucha, T. congolense remains restricted to the bloodstream.

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          Journal
          Veterinary Parasitology
          Veterinary Parasitology
          Elsevier BV
          03044017
          May 2002
          May 2002
          : 105
          : 4
          : 327-336
          Article
          10.1016/S0304-4017(02)00017-1
          11983307
          a78682da-db98-4df0-920e-fb0a0f380182
          © 2002

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