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Table 1 Countries with reported T. vivax infection in diverse host species tested with diverse methods

From: Global distribution, host range and prevalence of Trypanosoma vivax: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Country

Host species studied

Test method

Number of tests (total = 232,627)

Number of positives (total =24,420)

References

Argentina

Cattle

Reverse line blot

186

16

[217]

Benin

Buffoon kob, cattle, hartebeest, roan antelope, warthog, waterbuck,

Thin and thick blood smears

312

205

[10, 99]

Bolivia

Cattle

Thin blood smear, Giemsa stained blood smear, PCR

1520

311

[123, 177, 243]

Botswana

Cape buffalo, cattle, donkey, goat, greater kudu, impala, lechwe, reedbuck, sable antelope, tsessebe

MHCT/Woo test, Giemsa stained thick and thin blood smear, IFAT

3040

399

[100, 239]

Brazil

Cattle, donkey, goat, horse, pampas deer, sheep, domestic buffalo

MHCT/Woo test, PCR, IFAT, thin and thick blood smear, buffy coat smear, Ab-ELISA, PCR

11468

4079

[4, 51, 58,59,60,61,62, 71, 72, 81, 83,84,85, 91, 94, 112, 116, 125,126,127, 154, 156, 212, 219, 220, 226, 228, 242, 244, 250, 274, 277]

Burkina Faso

Cattle

Buffy coat smear, Ag-ELISA, Ab-ELISA, PCR

11095

1095

[65, 90, 151, 216, 241, 251,252,253]

Cameroon

African civet, black legged mangoose, black striped duiker, blue duiker, bosman potto, brush tailed porcupine, cattle, cloaked mangabey, crested mangabey, crocodile, dark mangoose, de Brazza’s monkey, dog, dwarf guenon, giant forest squirrel, giant rat, goat, golden cat, golden potto, greater cane rat, greater white-nosed monkey, guereza white colobus, long-tailed pangolin, mandrill, mona monkey, monitor lizard, moustached monkey, ogilby’s duiker, Peter’s duiker,pig, red-legged sun squirrel, royal antelope, sheep, sitatunga, small-spotted genet, tree dassie, tree pangolin, two-spotted palm civet, water chevrotain, white-eyelid mangabey, yellow-backed duiker

Buffy coat smear, PCR

4176

406

[7, 13, 14, 170, 202, 245] [7, 13, 14, 170, 202, 245]

Chad

Cattle

Buffy coat smear, Ab-ELISA

1866

435

[93]

Colombia

Cattle, goat, sheep

Blood smear, PCR, IFAT

6712

1699

[135, 136, 215, 221, 232, 274]

Costa Rica

Cattle

Blood smear, IFAT

642

53

[210, 274]

Côte d’Ivoire

Cattle, goat, pig, sheep

MHCT/Woo test, PCR

2185

195

[45, 148, 197]

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Cattle, dog, goat, pig, sheep

MHCT/Woo test, ELISA

685

41

[167, 168]

Ecuador

Cattle

IFAT

310

70

[274]

El Salvador

Cattle

IFAT

100

15

[274]

Equatorial Guinea

Goat, sheep

PCR

559

10

[79]

Ethiopia

Cattle, donkey, dromedary camel, goat, horse, mule, sheep

Giemsa stained blood smear, blood smear, buffy coat smear, MHCT/Woo test, thin and thick blood smear, Ab-ELISA, PCR

55196

2600

[6, 43, 44, 48, 64, 69, 70, 74,75,76, 86, 87, 92, 98, 101, 103, 107, 113,114,115, 122, 142, 144, 145, 152, 178,179,180,181,182, 184, 187, 191, 229, 230, 240, 248, 257, 258, 262, 264,265,266]

French Guiana

Cattle

Ag-ELISA

3000

870

[95]

Gabon

Cattle

Buffy coat smear, Ag-ELISA, PCR

442

26

[80, 157, 268]

Gambia

Cattle, donkey, goat, horse, sheep

Buffy coat smear, Giemsa stained blood smear, Ab-ELISA, PCR

5745

1329

[8, 96, 102, 173, 213, 218]

Ghana

Cattle, goat, pig, sheep

Buffy coat smear, PCR, Ag-latex agglutination test

1786

231

[46, 117, 143, 198]

Guyana

Goat, sheep

MHCT/Woo test, IFAT

467

15

[55, 272]

Kenya

Black rhinoceros, cattle, dromedary camel, goat, horse, pig, sheep

Thin and thick blood smear, Giemsa stained blood smear, buffy coat smear, MHCT/Woo test, Ag-ELISA, PCR

5156

845

[66, 146, 172, 174, 183, 185, 196, 200, 201, 208, 209, 227, 261, 267, 275]

Liberia

Cattle

Giemsa stained blood smear, IFAT, Ab-ELISA

700

327

[155, 176]

Malawi

Cattle

Giemsa stained blood smear

9309

9

[271]

Mali

Cattle

Buffy coat smear

796

34

[192]

Martinique

Cattle

IFAT

227

0

[50]

Mozambique

Cattle

Blood smear

16895

1245

[254]

Namibia

Cattle

Giemsa stained thick and thin blood smear, MHCT

1481

15

[270]

Nigeria

Cattle, dog, goat, horse, sheep

Blood smear, Giemsa stained blood smear, MHCT/buffy coat smear, MHCT/Woo test, Ag-ELISA, PCR

20080

2926

[52, 53, 63, 88, 89, 104,105,106, 108,109,110, 134, 137,138,139,140, 153, 166, 206, 207, 211, 214, 234,235,236,237, 259, 269, 276]

Pakistan

Donkey, horse, mule

PCR

300

0

[231]

Paraguay

Cattle

IFAT

15

6

[274]

Peru

Cattle

Blood smear, MHCT/Woo test, Giemsa stained blood smear, IFAT, PCR

985

119

[171, 177, 222, 274]

Rwanda

Cattle

Blood smear

3630

36

[12]

Senegal

Cattle, dog, donkey, goat, horse, sheep

Buffy coat smear, blood smears, Ab-ELISA, PCR

4890

365

[111, 128, 129, 225, 238]

South Africa

Cattle

PCR

143

30

[169]

Sudan

Cattle, donkey, dromedary camel, horse

Blood smear, Buffy coat smear, PCR

4426

366

[132, 186, 223, 233]

Tanzania

African civet, bohor reedbuck, cattle, Coke’s hartebeest, giraffe, Grant’s gazelle, hunting dog, impala, Kirk’s dikdik, klipspringer, Lichtenstein’s hartebeest, oribi, oryx, ostrich, pig, roan antelope, southern reedbuck, steinbuck, Thomson’s gazelle, tsessebe, warthog, wildebeest, zebra

Blood smear, thin and thick blood smear, Giemsa stained blood smear, buffy coat smear, PCR, PCR-LAMP

9974

431

[5, 56, 78, 130, 131, 133, 141, 147, 149, 188, 194, 203, 247, 256]

Togo

Cattle

PCR-RFLP

354

27

[263]

Uganda

Cattle, dog, donkey, goat, pig, sheep

Giemsa stained blood smear, MHCT/Woo test, thick and thin blood smear, buffy coat smear, Ab-ELISA, PCR

28510

1932

[47, 49, 54, 57, 67, 68, 77, 82, 158,159,160,161,162,163,164,165, 189, 190, 195, 205, 273]

Venezuela

Cattle, horse, sheep, domestic buffalo

MHCT/Woo test, stained blood smear, IFAT, Ab-ELISA, PCR

6328

1373

[73, 118,119,120,121, 124, 224, 255, 260]

Zambia

African civet, baboon, bat, black rhinoceros, bushbuck, cane rat, Cape buffalo, cattle, crocodile, eland, elephant, genet, giraffe, goat, greater kudu, grey duiker, grysbok, hare, hartebeest, hippopotamus, hunting dog, hyena, impala, jackal, leopard, lion, mongoose, pig, porcupine, puku, reedbuck, roan antelope, serval, vervet monkey, warthog, waterbuck, wild cat, wildebeest, zebra

PCR, buffy coat smear

6936

234

[9, 97, 150, 175, 193, 199, 204, 246]

  1. Ab-Elisa antibody enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, Ag-Elisa antigen enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, Mhct micro-hematocrit centrifugation technique, Ifat immunofluorescence antibody test, Pcr polymerase chain reaction, Pcr-Lamp polymerase chain reaction-loop mediated isothermal amplification, Pcr-Rflp polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism