Tsetse fly blood meal modification and trypanosome identification in two sleeping sickness foci in the forest of southern Cameroon

Acta Tropica

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 81-88

  Farikou, Oumarou ^a,c   Njiokou, Flobert ^a   Simo, Gustave ^b   Asonganyi, Tazoacha ^a   Cuny, Gérard ^c   Geiger, Anne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

^c CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Blood meal preference; Feeding pattern modifications; Nagana; Sleeping sickness; Trypanosome species; Tsetse fly

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B;

BLOOD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLY; GENE;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST; GLOSSINA; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAVANNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SNAKE; SWINE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA GAMBIENSE; TSETSE FLY; TURTLE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; CAMEROON; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREES; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES;

CAMEROON;

ANIMALIA; GLOSSINA (GENUS); GLOSSINA NIGROFUSCA; GLOSSINA PALLICERA; GLOSSINA PALPALIS PALPALIS; KINIXYS; PYTHON SEBAE; SUIDAE; TESTUDINES; TRIONYX; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE;

EID: 77955272289     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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