Genetic diversity in Trypanosoma (Trypanozoon) brucei isolates from mainland and Lake Victoria island populations in south-eastern Uganda: epidemiological and control implications

Abstract

The Buvuma Islands, a collection of approximately 48 islands and islets, are situated off the northern shores of Lake Victoria, in Mukono District, Uganda. A mass evacuation of the islands' inhabitants was undertaken by the authorities in the 1940s because of an epidemic of sleeping sickness, the causative parasites being transmitted by Glossina palidipes (Mackichan, 1944).