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    Twenty-three extant species of tsetse flies are known from the African continent as well as the Arabian Peninsula. Tsetse without the "fly" has become more common...
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    between mammal hosts by an insect vector belonging to different species of tsetse fly (Glossina). Transmission occurs by biting during the insect's blood meal...
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    reported cases. Both are usually transmitted by the bite of an infected tsetse fly and are most common in rural areas. Initially, the first stage of the...
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    Glossina morsitans is a species of tsetse fly (genus Glossina). It is one of the major vectors of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense in African savannas. Glossina...
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    most of northern Mexico. The tsetse fly was eradicated from Zanzibar in 1998 and Senegal in 2014. The Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly, Ceratitis capitata...
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    Chagas disease causes 21,000 deaths per year mainly in Latin America. The tsetse fly bite erupts into a red chancre sore and within a few weeks, the person...
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  • Glossina fuscipes is a riverine fly species in the genus Glossina, which are commonly known as tsetse flies. Typically found in sub-Saharan Africa but...
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    frogs. In 1903, David Bruce identified the protozoan parasite and the tsetse fly vector of African trypanosomiasis. A number of different methods demonstrate...
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  • doctoral thesis at Cambridge University was on the life cycle of the tsetse fly. He was then awarded a post-doctorate research position at the Johns Hopkins...
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    Also known as "sleeping sickness" or "sleepy sickness" (distinct from tsetse fly–transmitted sleeping sickness), it was first described in 1917 by neurologist...
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    it almost immediately pupates with no freely feeding larval stage. The tsetse fly (as well as other Glossinidae, Hippoboscidae, Nycteribidae and Streblidae)...
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    the ideal habitat for tsetse fly and allowed them to expand from central and western Africa to the rest of the continent. Tsetse fly carry the parasite that...
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    epidemic of human sleeping sickness in Uganda, where he established that tsetse fly was the carrier (vector) of these human and animal diseases. The bacterium...
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    African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), surrounding the area of the tsetse fly bite.[citation needed] Similarities between the conditions chancre and...
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  • species of gram-negative bacteria that is a bacterial endosymbiont of the tsetse fly. Because of this relationship, Wigglesworthia has lost a large part of...
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    and Sierra Leone. They are trypanotolerant, allowing them to be kept in tsetse fly-infested areas. They also show superior resistance to ticks and the diseases...
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    generations, after which they are acquired vertically. Wigglesworthia, a tsetse fly symbiont, is vertically transmitted (via mother's milk). When a symbiont...
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    delta, due to the threat that the tsetse fly poses to their cattle. During a hiatus of some 40 years, the tsetse fly retreated and most Batawana lived...
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  • next generation. Tsetse flies have a fascinating life cycle. Tsetse gives life birth, which is extremely rare among insects. The fly fertilized one egg...
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    other morphological properties within a muscle fiber, can change in a tsetse fly with exercise and age. List of human cell types derived from the germ...
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    take its name from a hunting dog that died there after being bitten by a tsetse fly. The hamlet was officially renamed in 2005 to Emjejane (SiSwati) after...
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    trypanosomes develop in tsetse flies (Glossina spp.), its biological vector, in about one to a few weeks. When an infected tsetse fly bites an animal, the...
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    La Mosca Tsé-Tsé or simply La Mosca (in English: "The Tsetse Fly") is an Argentine rock fusion band, whose music consists of different genres like ska...
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    blamed for the prevalence of the tsetse fly, and the reserves became experimental areas in the efforts to eradicate the fly. Farmers called for the slaughter...
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  • Look up tsetse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tsetse and similar can mean : Tsetse fly, one of the large biting flies inhabiting much of mid-continental...
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    8 June 1938) was an English naturalist noted for his contributions to tsetse fly research. Swynnerton was born in Folkestone, Kent on 3 December 1877....
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  • is studied due to its potential use in the biological control of the tsetse fly. Sodalis is an important model for evolutionary biologists because of...
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  • meaning has been modified in modern times to include "to con"; or from the tsetse fly, as the language was first known as Flytaal, although flaai also means...
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    non-tsetse modes of transmission. The Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Campaign (PATTEC) works to eradicate the vector (the tsetse fly)...
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  • Culicidae (mosquitoes) Calyptra (moth) (vampire moths) Hippoboscoidea Tsetse fly Lipoptena Melophagus ovinus, (sheep keds) and relatives Oestridae (bot...
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