Where, when and why do tsetse contact humans? Answers from studies in a national park of Zimbabwe.

• Hauptverfasser: Stephen J Torr (VerfasserIn), Andrew Chamisa (VerfasserIn), T N Clement Mangwiro (VerfasserIn), Glyn A Vale (VerfasserIn)
• Format: Buch
• Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Schlagworte: article
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BACKGROUND: Sleeping sickness, also called human African trypanosomiasis, is transmitted by the tsetse, a blood-sucking fly confined to sub-Saharan Africa. The form of the disease in West and Central Africa is carried mainly by species of tsetse that inhabit riverine woodland and feed avidly on huma...