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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Improving the cost-effectiveness of visual devices for the control of riverine tsetse flies, the major vectors of human African trypanosomiasis
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Volume 5, No. 8, Article e1257, Year 2011
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Control of the Riverine (Palpalis) group of tsetse flies is normally achieved with stationary artificial devices such as traps or insecticide-treated targets. The efficiency of biconical traps (the standard control device), 1×1 m black targets and small 25×25 cm targets with flanking nets was compared using electrocuting sampling methods. The work was done on Glossina tachinoides and G. palpalis gambiensis (Burkina Faso), G. fuscipes quanzensis (Democratic Republic of Congo), G. f. martinii (Tanzania) and G. f. fuscipes (Kenya). The killing effectiveness (measured as the catch per m2 of cloth) for small targets plus flanking nets is 5.5-15X greater than for 1 m2 targets and 8.6-37.5X greater than for biconical traps. This has important implications for the costs of control of the Riverine group of tsetse vectors of sleeping sickness. © 2011 Esterhuizen et al.
Authors & Co-Authors
Esterhuizen, Johan
United Kingdom, Liverpool
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Rayaissé, Jean Baptiste
Unknown Affiliation
Tirados, Iñaki
United Kingdom, London
University of Greenwich
Mpiana, Serge
Congo
Laboratoire Vétérinaire Central de Kinshasa
Solano, Philippe
France, Montpellier
Ird Centre de Montpellier
Vale, Glynowr A.
United Kingdom, London
University of Greenwich
South Africa, Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch University
Lehane, Michael J.
United Kingdom, Liverpool
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Torr, Stephen J.
United Kingdom, London
University of Greenwich
Statistics
Citations: 71
Authors: 8
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1371/journal.pntd.0001257
ISSN:
19352727
e-ISSN:
19352735
Study Locations
Burkina Faso
Congo
Kenya
Tanzania