Abstract:
We carried out a baseline survey of cattle in Kaberamaido district, in the context of controlling the domestic animal reservoir of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense human African trypanosomiasis (rHAT) towards elimination. Cattle blood was subjected to capillary tube centrifugation followed
by measurement of the packed cell volume (PCV) and examination of the buffy coat area for motile trypanosomes.