Population Genetics of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense : Clonality and Diversity within and between Foci

Funding: This work was supported by funding from the Wellcome Trust through a programme grant to AT, AML and CMRT (074732/Z04/Z) and a project grant to JS (082786). AML is a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow (095201/Z/10/Z), LML is a Royal Society University Research Fellow (UF090083) and CWD was supported by a Wellcome Trust PhD studentship (080553/Z/6/A). The Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology is supported by core funding from the Wellcome Trust (085349). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Acknowledgments We thank colleagues Dr M Odiit (Uganda AIDS Commission), Mr D Okitoi (formerly Sleeping Sickness Special Programme, Livestock Health Research Institute, Tororo, Uganda), Ms F Achim (Serere Health centre, Soroti, Uganda), Dr J Chisi (College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi) and Mr A Nkhoma (Nkhotakota District Hospital, Malawi) for their role in HAT patient recruitment and sample collection.Peer reviewedPublisher PD