Prospects for developing odour baits to control Glossina fuscipes spp., the major vector of human African trypanosomiasis.

• Main Authors: Maurice O Omolo (Author), Ahmed Hassanali (Author), Serge Mpiana (Author), Johan Esterhuizen (Author), Jenny Lindh (Author), Mike J Lehane (Author), Philippe Solano (Author), Jean Baptiste Rayaisse (Author), Glyn A Vale (Author), Steve J Torr (Author), Inaki Tirados (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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We are attempting to develop cost-effective control methods for the important vector of sleeping sickness, Glossina fuscipes spp. Responses of the tsetse flies Glossina fuscipes fuscipes (in Kenya) and G. f. quanzensis (in Democratic Republic of Congo) to natural host odours are reported. Arrangemen...