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Interacting factors in the epidemiology of trypanosomiasis in an endemic/enzootic region of Uganda and its contiguous area of Kenya
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 September 2011
Abstract
In south-eastern Uganda the natural hosts of Glossina pallidipes, G. fuscipes fuscipes and G. brevipalpis appear to influence trypanosome infection rates in these vectors. The transmission index of these vectors also differs. Temperature is yet another factor affecting trypanosome infection rates in these tsetses. Other factors probably also form important components in the transmission cycle. In this region of Uganda and its contiguous lake shore area of Kenya there are extant foci of the infections, and man and his symbiotic livestock are exposed to a high challenge of trypanosomiases. Furthermore, in this high endemic/enzootic ecological zone of tropical Africa, the transmission of trypanosome infections to the adventitious hosts, via the tsetse vectors, depends upon a variety of complex interacting factors.
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- International Journal of Tropical Insect Science , Volume 1 , Issue 1: Epidemiology of African Trypanosomiasis , March 1980 , pp. 117 - 121
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- Copyright © ICIPE 1980
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