A Neglected Aspect of the Epidemiology of Sleeping Sickness: The Propensity of the Tsetse Fly Vector to Enter Houses

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Vale, Glyn A ^a,b   Chamisa, Andrew ^c   Mangwiro, Clement ^d   Torr, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c Division of Tsetse Control   (Zimbabwe)

^d BINDURA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE EDUCATION   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GLOSSINA MORSITANS; HOST; HUMAN; HUNGER; INFECTION RISK; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84874782637     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002086     Document Type: Article

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