The Ethics of Eliminating Harmful Species: The Case of the Tsetse Fly. [PDF]
Bioscience, 2019 Wildlife species harmful to humans are often targets of control and elimination programs. A contemporary example is the tsetse fly, a vector of sleeping sickness and African animal trypanosomosis. Tsetse flies have recently been targeted by a pan-African
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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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Tsetse EP protein protects the fly midgut from trypanosome establishment. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2010 African trypanosomes undergo a complex developmental process in their tsetse fly vector before transmission back to a vertebrate host. Typically, 90% of fly infections fail, most during initial establishment of the parasite in the fly midgut.
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Laboratory colonisation and genetic bottlenecks in the tsetse fly Glossina pallidipes [PDF]
, 2014 Background The IAEA colony is the only one available for mass rearing of Glossina pallidipes, a vector of human and animal African trypanosomiasis in eastern Africa. This colony is the source for Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) programs in East Africa.
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Description of a nanobody-based competitive immunoassay to detect tsetse fly exposure. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015 BACKGROUND:Tsetse flies are the main vectors of human and animal African trypanosomes. The Tsal proteins in tsetse fly saliva were previously identified as suitable biomarkers of bite exposure. A new competitive assay was conceived based on nanobody (Nb)
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The molecular and cellular basis of olfactory response to tsetse fly attractants. [PDF]
PLoS Genet, 2019 Dipteran or “true” flies occupy nearly every terrestrial habitat, and have evolved to feed upon a wide variety of sources including fruit, pollen, decomposing animal matter, and even vertebrate blood.
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Odor coding in the antenna of the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019 Significance Tsetse flies pose a major threat to the health and economy of sub-Saharan Africa. They transmit trypanosomes that cause African sleeping sickness in humans and a disease called nagana in livestock.
Soni N, Chahda JS, Carlson JR.
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Tsetse fly density and trypanosoma infection rate in Bedele and Dabo Hana districts of Buno Bedele Zone, Southwest Ethiopia [PDF]
BMC Veterinary ResearchBackground Trypanosomiasis is an infectious disease caused by parasitic protozoa of the genus Trypanosome and primarily transmitted by tsetse flies. This study aimed to determine the density of tsetse flies and the rate of trypanosome infection in the ...
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Zebra skin odor repels the savannah tsetse fly, Glossina pallidipes (Diptera: Glossinidae). [PDF]
PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2019 Background African trypanosomosis, primarily transmitted by tsetse flies, remains a serious public health and economic challenge in sub-Saharan Africa.
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The Tsetse Fly Displays an Attenuated Immune Response to Its Secondary Symbiont, Sodalis glossinidius. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2019 Sodalis glossinidius, a vertically transmitted facultative symbiont of the tsetse fly, is a bacterium in the early/intermediate state of its transition toward symbiosis, representing an important model for investigating how the insect host immune defense
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