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Improving the cost-...
Improving the cost-effectiveness of artificial visual baits for controlling the tsetse fly Glossina fuscipes fuscipes
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- Lindh, Jenny M. (författare)
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
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- Torr, Steve J. (författare)
- Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Chatham, Kent, United Kingdom
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- Vale, Glyn A. (författare)
- Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Chatham, Kent, United Kingdom
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- Lehane, Mike J. (författare)
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
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- 2009-07-07
- 2009
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1935-2735. ; 3:7, s. e474-
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Abstract
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- Tsetse flies, which transmit sleeping sickness to humans and nagana to cattle, are commonly controlled by stationary artificial baits consisting of traps or insecticide-treated screens known as targets. In Kenya the use of electrocuting sampling devices showed that the numbers of Glossina fuscipes fuscipes (Newstead) visiting a biconical trap were nearly double those visiting a black target of 100 cm x 100 cm. However, only 40% of the males and 21% of the females entered the trap, whereas 71% and 34%, respectively, alighted on the target. The greater number visiting the trap appeared to be due to its being largely blue, rather than being three-dimensional or raised above the ground. Through a series of variations of target design we show that a blue-and-black panel of cloth (0.06 m(2)) flanked by a panel (0.06 m(2)) of fine black netting, placed at ground level, would be about ten times more cost-effective than traps or large targets in control campaigns. This finding has important implications for controlling all subspecies of G. fuscipes, which are currently responsible for more than 90% of sleeping sickness cases.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Ekologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Ecology (hsv//eng)
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