Post eclosion age predicts the prevalence of midgut trypanosome infections in Glossina.
The teneral phenomenon, as observed in Glossina sp., refers to the increased susceptibility of the fly to trypanosome infection when the first bloodmeal taken is trypanosome-infected. In recent years, the term teneral has gradually become synonymous with unfed, and thus fails to consider the age of...
Main Authors: | Deirdre P Walshe, Michael J Lehane, Lee R Haines |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011-01-01
|
Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3210762?pdf=render |
Similar Items
-
Developing a continental atlas of the distribution and trypanosomal infection of tsetse flies (Glossina species)
by: Giuliano Cecchi, et al.
Published: (2015-05-01) -
Inhibition of the DNA amplification of trypanosomes present in tsetse flies midguts: implications for the identification of trypanosome species in wild tsetse flies
by: Ravel S., et al.
Published: (2004-03-01) -
A study on the ecology and trypanosome infection of <em>Glossina morsitans submorsitans</em> Newst in south Darfur, Sudan
by: A.H.A. Rahman, et al.
Published: (1984-05-01) -
Prevalence of Sodalis glossinidius and different trypanosome species in Glossina palpalis palpalis caught in the Fontem sleeping sickness focus of the southern Cameroon
by: Kanté Tagueu Sartrien, et al.
Published: (2018-01-01) -
Molecular identification of Wolbachia and Sodalis glossinidius in the midgut of Glossina fuscipes quanzensis from the Democratic Republic of Congo
by: Simo Gustave, et al.
Published: (2019-01-01)