Baited-boats: an innovative way to control riverine tsetse, vectors of sleeping sickness in West Africa
| Autor: | Philippe Solano, Moise Kagbadouno, Fabien Dofini, Mamadou Camara, Stephen J. Torr, Fabrice Courtin, Issiaka Barry, Jean Baptiste Rayaisse, Wilfrid Yoni, Ernest Wendemanegde Salou |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male Entomology Insecticides Tsetse Flies Wetland Biology Insect Control wa_110 Pirogue Rivers wc_705 parasitic diseases Burkina Faso qx_600 medicine Animals Humans African trypanosomiasis qx_505 Tsetse Mangrove Ecosystem Ships geography geography.geographical_feature_category Behavior Animal Ecology Research food and beverages Tropical disease Tsetse fly medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Insect Vectors Lakes Trypanosomiasis African Infectious Diseases Habitat qx_650 Wetlands Trypanosoma Female Parasitology |
| Zdroj: | Parasites & Vectors |
| ISSN: | 1756-3305 |
| Popis: | Background\ud \ud Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) is an important neglected tropical disease caused by Trypanosoma spp. parasites transmitted by species of tsetse fly (Glossina spp). The most important vectors of HAT are riverine tsetse and these can be controlled by attracting them to stationary baits such as insecticide-impregnated traps or targets deployed along the banks of rivers. However, the geographical nature of some riverine habitats, particularly mangroves but also extensive lake and river networks, makes deployment of baits difficult and limits their efficacy. It is known that tsetse are attracted by the movement of their hosts. Our hypothesis was that mounting a target on canoes typically used in Africa (‘pirogues’) would produce an effective means of attracting-and-killing riverine tsetse in extensive wetland habitats.\ud \ud Methods\ud \ud In Folonzo, southern Burkina Faso, studies were made of the numbers of tsetse attracted to a target (75 × 50 cm) of blue cloth and netting mounted on a pirogue moving along a river, versus the same target placed on the riverbank. The targets were covered with a sticky film which caught tsetse as they contacted the target.\ud \ud Results\ud \ud The pirogue-mounted target caught twice as many G. tachinoides and G. p. gambiensis, and 8 times more G. morsitans submorsitans than the stationary one (P |
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