Validation of in vitro-produced and freeze-dried whole cell lysate antigens for ELISA Trypanosoma evansi antibody detection in camels.

Trypanosoma evansi is a blood parasite responsible for surra in mammals, with a high impact in camels and horses. The WOAH-recommended reference method for detecting immunoglobulin G directed against T. evansi is ELISA, using whole cell lysate antigens (WCLAs).

Consistent Kaluza-Klein Truncations and Two-Dimensional Gauged Supergravity.

We consider generalized Scherk-Schwarz reductions of E_{9} exceptional field theory to D=2 space-time dimensions and, in particular, construct the resulting scalar potential of all gauged supergravities that can be obtained in this way. This provides the first general expression for a multitude of theories with an interesting structure of vacua, covering potentially many new AdS_{2} cases. As an application, we prove the consistency of the truncation of eleven-dimensional supergravity on S^{8}×S^{1} to SO(9) gauged maximal supergravity.

A review on the diagnosis of animal trypanosomoses.

This review focuses on the most reliable and up-to-date methods for diagnosing trypanosomoses, a group of diseases of wild and domestic mammals, caused by trypanosomes, parasitic zooflagellate protozoans mainly transmitted by insects. In Africa, the Americas and Asia, these diseases, which in some cases affect humans, result in significant illness in animals and cause major economic losses in livestock. A number of pathogens are described in this review, including several Salivarian trypanosomes, such as Trypanosoma brucei sspp.