A study was conducted in six villages of Busia District Kenya, to assess the socio-economic factors affecting implementation of a community-managed tsetse control programme. The study design had three Phases: planning (Phase 1), implementation (Phase 2) and monitoring and evaluation (Phase 3). On...
Mwangi, D.K.
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[Soci-economic factors affecting implementation of community-managed tsetse control in Busia District, Kenya.]
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Soci-economic factors affecting implementation of community-managed tsetse control in Busia District, Kenya.
The advances in genomics technologies and genome analysis methods that offer new leads for accelerating discovery of putative targets for developing overall control tools are reviewed in Chapter 1. In Chapter 2, a PCR typing method based on restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the...
Agbo, E.C.
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[Genome analysis and DNA marker-based characterisation of pathogenic trypanosomes.]
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Genome analysis and DNA marker-based characterisation of pathogenic trypanosomes.
Trypanosomes are unicellular protozoans that alter their hosts I immune response by antigen variation; a process during which the trypanosome periodically switches the antigen profile of the variable surface glycoprotein (VSG), an immunodominant molecule that covers its entire surface. The VSGs a...
Ecology of Glossina fuscipes fuscipes Newstead was studied with specific reference to temperature, relative humidity, light intensity, resting and breeding sites. The comprehensive study was undertaken to assemble, upgrade and bridge gaps in information on the species which would be used in organ...
Oloo, F.P.
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[Ecology of Glossina fuscipes fuscipes newst. (Diptera: Glossinidae) along lake Victoria shore in South Nyanza.]
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Ecology of Glossina fuscipes fuscipes newst. (Diptera: Glossinidae) along lake Victoria shore in South Nyanza.
Tsetse flies are blood-sucking insects. The ability to keep their blood meal in an anticoagulated state by means of anticoagulant(s), fibrinogenuse(s), fibrinolysin(s) or plasminogen activator like activities is essential to their survival. In this investigation tsetse midgut fibrinolytic activit...
For a long time, trypanosomosis, spread by the tsetse fly Glossina, constrained human settlement in the Lambwe Valley, a south-western Kenya rangeland. After lengthy efforts to control tsetse over many years, the valley is currently experiencing an increase in human population growth rate, and r...
Muriuki, G.W.
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Njoka, T.J.
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Reid, Robin S.
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Nyariki, D.M.
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[Tsetse control and land-use change in Lambwe valley, south-western Kenya]
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Tsetse control and land-use change in Lambwe valley, south-western Kenya
Diagnosis of trypanosome infections in tsetse (Glossina spp.) is currently based on dissection and microscopic examination of different organs of the vector for the presence of infecting trypanosomes. This procedure is slow and labour intensive, and it is not accurate. The work reported in this t...
Bosompem, K.M.
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[Development of monoclonal antibody-based assays for detection and differentiation of trypanosome species in the tsetse fly (Glossina SPP).]
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Development of monoclonal antibody-based assays for detection and differentiation of trypanosome species in the tsetse fly (Glossina SPP).
Tsetse-transmitted trypanosomosis poses severe constraints to livestock productivity in sub-Saharan Africa, affecting large areas of the continent that hold the greatest potential for agricultural development. Greater exploitation of the genetic resistance to trypanosomosis (trypananotolerance) t...
Kang'a, S.
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[Development and application of genetic markers linked to A QTL controlling resistance to trypanosomosis on bovine chromosome 7.]
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Development and application of genetic markers linked to A QTL controlling resistance to trypanosomosis on bovine chromosome 7.
Moloo, S.K.
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Kutuza, S.B.
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[Comparative study on the susceptibility of different Glossina species to Trypanosoma brucei brucei infection]
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Comparative study on the susceptibility of different Glossina species to Trypanosoma brucei brucei infection
Moloo, S.K.
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[The distribution of Glossina species in Africa and their natural hosts]
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The distribution of Glossina species in Africa and their natural hosts