A neglected aspect of the epidemiology of sleeping sickness: the propensity of the tsetse fly vector to enter houses.

BACKGROUND: When taking a bloodmeal from humans, tsetse flies can transmit the trypanosomes responsible for sleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasis. While it is commonly assumed that humans must enter the normal woodland habitat of the tsetse in order to have much chance of contacting th...

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Main Authors: Glyn A Vale (Author), Andrew Chamisa (Author), Clement Mangwiro (Author), Stephen J Torr (Author)
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Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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