Factors Affecting the Propensity of Tsetse Flies to Enter Houses and Attack Humans Inside: Increased Risk of Sleeping Sickness in Warmer Climates

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Vale, Glyn A ^a,b   Hargrove, John W ^b   Chamisa, Andrew ^c   Hall, David R ^a   Mangwiro, Clement ^d   Torr, Stephen J ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c Division of Tsetse Control   (Zimbabwe)

^d BINDURA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE EDUCATION   (Zimbabwe)

^e LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FOREST; GLOSSINIDAE; HABITAT; HOUSE FLY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; RISK; SIMULATION; SMOKE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 84876824406     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002193     Document Type: Article

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