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Table 1 Trypanosome genome strains

From: The origins of the trypanosome genome strains Trypanosoma brucei brucei TREU 927, T. b. gambiense DAL 972, T. vivax Y486 and T. congolense IL3000

Species

Strain

Origin

T. b. brucei

TREU 927/4

Isolated from tsetse Glossina pallidipes in 1970 in Kiboko, Kenya

T. b. gambiense

DAL 972

Isolated from a patient in 1986 in Daloa, Ivory Coast

T. vivax

Y486

Isolated from a bovine in 1976 in Zaria, Nigeria

T. congolense

IL3000

Isolated from a bovine in 1966 in Transmara, Kenya