Tsetse fly host preference from sleeping sickness foci in Cameroon: Epidemiological implications

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-39

  Simo, G ^a   Njiokou, F ^b   Mbida Mbida, J A ^b   Njitchouang, G R ^b   Herder, S ^c   Asonganyi, T ^b   Cuny, G ^c  

^a Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plant Studies Yaounde   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Blood meals; Epidemiology; HAT transmission cycle; Host preference; Sleeping sickness; Tsetse fly

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANTELOPE; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EVOLUTION; GLOSSINA; GLOSSINA CALIGINEA; GLOSSINA NIGROFUSCA; GLOSSINA PALLICERA PALLICERA; GLOSSINA PALPALIS; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SWINE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TSETSE FLY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CAMEROON; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES;

ANIMALIA; GLOSSINA (GENUS); GLOSSINA NIGROFUSCA; GLOSSINA PALLICERA; GLOSSINA PALPALIS PALPALIS; OVIS ARIES; SUIDAE; TRAGELAPHUS; TRAGELAPHUS SPEKII; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 36749100862     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2007.09.005     Document Type: Article

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