Trypanosoma evansi control and containment in Australasia Reid,
S.A. (2002) Trypanosoma evansi control and containment in
Australasia. Trends in Parasitology, 18 (5). pp. 219-224.
*Subscription may be required Animal trypanosomosis caused by
Trypanosoma evansi is endemic throughout Southeast Asia, where
it is an important constraint on the productivity of smallholder
livestock. In the past decade, T. evansi has emerged as a
serious threat to the viability of smallholder livestock
industries in the Philippines and causes severe disease
outbreaks with high mortality. Trypanosoma evansi also poses a
threat to livestock and native fauna in Australia and Papua New
Guinea (PNG) where it is absent, but the risk of it spreading
from Indonesia is high. Surveillance for T. evansi in PNG and
Australia, and its control in the Philippines is restricted by
the poor sensitivity and inadequate validation of existing
diagnostic tests and lack of information on the determinants of
infection. |Publication Type:||Journal Article