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Where, When and Why Do Tsetse Contact Humans? Answers from Studies in a National Park of Zimbabwe
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...
Autores principales: | Torr, Stephen J., Chamisa, Andrew, Mangwiro, T. N. Clement, Vale, Glyn A. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3429383/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22953013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001791 |
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