Temporal and spatial epidemiology of sleeping sickness and use of geographical information system (GIS) in Kenya [PDF]
Journal of Vector Borne Diseases, 2009 Background & objectives: In Kenya, sleeping sickness (SS) caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense is confined to the Nyanza and Western Provinces tsetse belts.
Jane Jemeli Rutto, Julia Wairimu Karuga
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Parasites & VectorsBackground Insect cell lines play a vital role in many aspects of research on disease vectors and agricultural pests. The tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans is an important vector of salivarian trypanosomes in sub-Saharan Africa and, as such, is a ...
Lesley Bell-Sakyi +8 more
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Benefit-Cost Analysis and Socio-Economic Considerations of Trypanosomiasis Control and Treatment in Northern Ghana [PDF]
The paper estimates the cost of tsetse control and treatment of trypanosomiasis and the benefits involved, using benefit-cost analysis. It also estimates the extent to which socio-economic characteristics of farmers affect the use of tsetse control ...
Asuming-Brempong, Samuel, Wahab, S.
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Parasites & Vectors, 2015 Background Tsetse flies (Genus: Glossina) are the sole cyclical vectors of African trypanosomoses. Despite their economic and public health impacts in sub-Saharan Africa, it has been decades since the latest distribution maps at the continental level ...
Giuliano Cecchi +4 more
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FITCA-EMMC workshops on information exchange and training with rural communities on environment: Eastern Uganda. W1 [PDF]
, 2003 Four workshops were held in four sub counties in the districts of Soroti, Tororo, Iganga and Kamuli. Five to seven villages were involved in each sub county.
Kang'Ethe, Erastus +4 more
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Remote sensing for control of tsetse flies [PDF]
Remotely sensed information is discussed which has potential for aiding in the control or eradication of tsetse flies. Data are available from earth resources meteorological, and manned satellites, from airborne sensors, and possibly from data collection
Giddings, L. E.
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Tsetse control, land use and livestock in the development of the Zambezi valley, Zimbabwe: Some policy considerations [PDF]
, 2011 Throughout Africa the importance of land use issues in relation to tsetse control planning has been emphasized consistently in the tsetse literature.
Barrett, J.C.
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Nature, 1896 IN the excellent review of the Tsetse fly-disease, which appeared in NATURE of April 16, Mr. Walter F. H. Blandford accepts with some reserve the observation made by Dr. David Bruce, that the fly is viviparous “as the fly has not yet been bred from the puparium.”
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Regional and National FITCA database harmonisation. Farming in Tsetse controlled area. Environmental monitoring and management component project n° 7 ACP RPR 578 : Short term consultancy from 15-Feb-2002 to 4 Mar-2002 and from 18-Mar-2002 to 29-Mar-2002 [PDF]
, 2002 Le Fitca (Farming in Tsetse Controlied Areas) est chargé de travailler à l'amélioration des conditions de vie des fermiers dans les zones où la maladie du sommeil est présente.
Fournié, Gilles
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Have tsetse flies disappeared from Brazzaville town? [PDF]
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2009 Background: From 1980 to 1985, the zoological park of Brazzaville was the only tsetse resting site located in downtown which supplied others temporary sites.
Patrick Bitsindou +3 more
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