Table 3

Trypanosome species and the expected band sizes on amplification with the nested ITS based primers (Cox et al, 2005)

Trypanosome species

Expected band size from NCBI database

Trypanozoon members (T. brucei)

1207 – 1224 bp

T. congolense Savannah

1413 bp

T. congolense Kilifi

1422 bp

T. congolense Forest

1513 bp

T. vivax

611 bp

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