Effect Of Human and Camel Blood Components on Trypanosoma Evansi in Rats

Abstract

The study investigated effect of human serum, plasma, and blood on Trypansoma Evansi. Three sets of experiments involved 3 groups of rats with T.evansi incubated in human plasma, serum and whole blood. The serum, plasma, and blood arrested the development of parasitaemia in rats for 8 days when equal volumes of the parasite and the serum, plasma, and blood were incubated for 30 minutes and inoculated interaperitonealy. All the control that inoculated with T.evansi incubated in Camel serum, plasma, and blood developed patent parasitaemia as of Day1. In vitro testing of human serum, but not camel serum, showed that the serum agglutinated T. evansi on a glass slide