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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A study was undertaken in the south coast of Kenya, on the tsetse fly species, Glossina austeni Newstead. The objective was to investigate its population ecology, behaviour and vectorial capacity. The main aspects studied were: habitat requirements and density, responses to sampling devices and m...