Sentences with phrase «african tsetse»
African tsetse flies are not pleasant to encounter.
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More than 4,000 flies were captured, of which 30 % — mostly tsetse flies, which spread African sleeping sickness — were engorged with blood.
Sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, is caused by trypanosome parasites transmitted by tsetse flies and threatens millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa.
Gambian sleeping sickness, or Gambian human African trypanosomiasis, is caused by a parasite called Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, carried by tsetse flies in Central and West Africa.
Human African Trypanosomiasis — also known as sleeping sickness — is a parasitic disease transmitted by the tsetse fly and provoked by Trypanosoma protozoans.
The more we understand, the better able we are to identify weaknesses, and use them to control the tsetse fly in regions where human African trypanosomiasis is endemic.»
This study lays out a list of parts responsible for the key processes and opens new doors to design prevention strategies to reduce the number of deaths and illnesses associated with human African trypanosomiasis and other diseases spread by the tsetse fly.
«Though human African trypanosomiasis affects thousands of people in sub-Saharan Africa, the absence of a genome - wide map of tsetse biology was a major hindrance for identifying vulnerabilities,» says Dr Serap Aksoy, co-senior author from the University of Yale.
Genome Sequence of the Tsetse Fly (Glossina morsitans): Vector of African Trypanosomiasis.
1 By contrast, the native Africans exhibited a very high tolerance to infectious disease including malaria carried by mosquitos, typhus and fevers transmitted by lice and sleeping sickness borne by the tsetse fly.
A second alternative - energy system, called Tsetse (named after the mythological African goddess of lightning), uses massive lightning - containment capacitors composed of dielectric glass and conductive metals from waste.