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Tsetse flies are regarded as a major cause of rural poverty in sub-Saharan Africa [10] because they prevent mixed farming. The land infested with tsetse flies is often cultivated by people using hoes rather than more efficient draught animals because nagana, the disease transmitted by tsetse, weakens and often kills these animals. Cattle that ...
Glossina tachinoides is one of the 23 recognized species of tsetse flies (genus Glossina), and it belongs to the riverine/palpalis group (subgenus Nemorhina). Glossina tachinoides can transmit African trypanosomiasis, including both the form affecting livestock and the one affecting humans.
Glossina fuscipes is a riverine fly species in the genus Glossina, which are commonly known as tsetse flies. [1] Typically found in sub-Saharan Africa [2] but with a small Arabian range, [3] G. fuscipes is a regional vector of African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness, that causes significant rates of morbidity and mortality among humans and livestock. [4]
To combat disease-ridden tsetse flies in Africa, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is enlisting heavy-duty drones. An autonomous system has been developed by Embention, which can fly ...
Glossina palpalis is known to be present in 20 countries in western Africa and central Africa, stretching from Senegal to Angola. [3] [1] Data on its occurrence in the peer-reviewed scientific literature for the period 1990–2020 is available for 16 countries; [4] Angola, Burkina Faso, [5] Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
The tsetse fly (genus Glossina) is a large, brown, biting fly that serves as both a host and vector for the trypanosome parasites. While taking blood from a mammalian host, an infected tsetse fly injects metacyclic trypomastigotes into skin tissue.
Glossina pallicera was known to be present in twelve countries in western Africa and central Africa; Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone in western Africa and Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon in central Africa.
G. morsitans is found in East Africa and Equatorial Africa. [1] [9]It is the tsetse species that is presently reported from the highest number of African countries, [10] i.e. at least 22 including: Angola, Burkina Faso, [11] Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, [12] Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Malawi, Mali, [13] Mozambique, Nigeria, [14] Rwanda ...