PMID: 9419848Mar 1, 1997Paper

Factors affecting trypanosome infection rate in tsetse fly (Diptera: Glossinidae) populations

Parassitologia
R C Mattioli

Abstract

Wide variations in trypanosome infection rate are observed in different tsetse fly (Glossina spp.) populations Environmental factors and features proper to the vector, mammalian host and infecting-trypanosome species acting in the acquisition and development of infective-trypanosome infection in tsetse are examined.

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