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Trypanosome Infection in Cattle and Associated Vectors in Etang District of Gambella, Ethiopia. [PDF]

J Parasitol Res
Background. Bovine trypanosomosis produces significant economic losses due to anemia, loss of body condition, and emaciation. The disease is transmitted biologically by tsetse flies and mechanically by biting flies such as Tabanus and Stomoxys. Therefore, this research is aimed at estimating the prevalence of bovine trypanosomosis and the apparent ...
Tola N, Wagari A, Lemu GH, Kedir M, Gebremeskel HF, Kebede IA.   +5 more
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Prevalence of symbionts and trypanosome infections in tsetse flies of two villages of the “Faro and Déo” division of the Adamawa region of Cameroon [PDF]

BMC Microbiology, 2018
Background Tsetse flies are vectors of human and animal African trypanosomiasis. In spite of many decades of chemotherapy and vector control, the disease has not been eradicated. Other methods like the transformation of tsetse fly symbionts to render the
Ginette Irma Kame-Ngasse, Flobert Njiokou, Tito Trésor Melachio-Tanekou, Oumarou Farikou, Gustave Simo, Anne Geiger   +5 more
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The national atlas of tsetse flies and African animal trypanosomosis in Ethiopia [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors, 2022
Background With the largest cattle population in Africa and vast swathes of fertile lands infested by tsetse flies, trypanosomosis is a major challenge for Ethiopian farmers.
Tsegaye Gebre, Berisha Kapitano, Dagnachew Beyene, Dereje Alemu, Ahimedin Beshir, Zelalem Worku, Teshome Kifle, Ayana Selamu, Endalew Debas, Aschenaki Kalsa, Netsanet Asfaw, Weining Zhao, Massimo Paone, Giuliano Cecchi   +13 more
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Epidemiological investigation of bovine trypanosomosis and distribution of vectors in Jimma zone, Ethiopia [PDF]

Parasite Epidemiology and Control, 2021
Trypanosomosis is highly reliant on the distribution of vectors responsible for transmission. A cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of bovine trypanosomosis as well as the distribution of vectors in
Dereje Tulu Robi, Shibiru Diriba
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Prevalence of trypanosomes, salivary gland hypertrophy virus and Wolbachia in wild populations of tsetse flies from West Africa [PDF]

BMC Microbiology, 2018
Background Tsetse flies are vectors of African trypanosomes, protozoan parasites that cause sleeping sickness (or human African trypanosomosis) in humans and nagana (or animal African trypanosomosis) in livestock.
Gisele M. S. Ouedraogo, Güler Demirbas-Uzel, Jean-Baptiste Rayaisse, Geoffrey Gimonneau, Astan C. Traore, Antonios Avgoustinos, Andrew G. Parker, Issa Sidibe, Anicet G. Ouedraogo, Amadou Traore, Bale Bayala, Marc J. B. Vreysen, Kostas Bourtzis, Adly m. M. Abd-Alla   +13 more
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Diversity of tsetse flies and trypanosome species circulating in the area of Lake Iro in southeastern Chad [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors, 2021
Background African trypanosomiases are vector-borne diseases that affect humans and livestock in sub-Saharan Africa. Although data have been collected on tsetse fauna as well as trypanosome infections in tsetse flies and mammals in foci of sleeping ...
Djoukzoumka Signaboubo, Vincent Khan Payne, Ibrahim Mahamat Alhadj Moussa, Hassane Mahamat Hassane, Petra Berger, Soerge Kelm, Gustave Simo   +6 more
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An atlas to support the progressive control of tsetse-transmitted animal trypanosomosis in Burkina Faso [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors, 2022
Background African animal trypanosomosis (AAT), transmitted by tsetse flies, is arguably the main disease constraint to integrated crop-livestock agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, and African heads of state and governments adopted a resolution to rid ...
Lassane Percoma, Jean Baptiste Rayaissé, Geoffrey Gimonneau, Zakaria Bengaly, Sié Hermann Pooda, Soumaïla Pagabeleguem, Rasmané Ganaba, Adama Sow, Rafael Argilés, Jérémy Bouyer, Moussa Ouedraogo, Weining Zhao, Massimo Paone, Issa Sidibé, Ouedraogo/Sanon Gisele, Giuliano Cecchi   +15 more
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Attraction of the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans submorsitans to acetone, 1-octen-3-ol, and the combination of these compounds in West Africa

Revue d’Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, 1984
Le pouvoir attractif du 1-octen-3-ol (octenol) et de l'acétone ayant été montré au Zimbabwe pour G. pallidipes et G. m. submorsitans au Burkina Faso. Les essais, faits successivement en saison des pluies puis en saison sèche, ont été réalisés selon le ...
H. Politzar, P. Mérot
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A national atlas of tsetse and African animal trypanosomosis in Mali [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors, 2019
Background Tsetse-transmitted trypanosomosis is a deadly, neglected tropical disease and a major challenge for mixed crop-livestock agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. It is caused by several species of the genus Trypanosoma. Information on the occurrence
Boucader Diarra, Modibo Diarra, Oumar Diall, Boubacar Bass, Youssouf Sanogo, Etienne Coulibaly, Mahamadou Sylla, Weining Zhao, Massimo Paone, Giuliano Cecchi   +9 more
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Essai de lutte contre Glossina morsitans submorsitans par utilisation d'écrans imprégnés de deltaméthrine

Revue d’Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, 1983
Dans le cadre de l'enseignement pratique donné à l'Ecole de lutte anti-tsé-tsé de Bobo-Dioulasso, un essai d'application de la méthode des écrans imprégnés d'insecticide contre G. m.
Andreas Schoenefeld
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