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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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Autores principales: Vale, Glyn A., Chamisa, Andrew, Mangwiro, Clement, Torr, Stephen J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3585122/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23469309
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002086