Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections ...

The Kenya Tsetse Fly and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Council (KENTTEC) has suspended a recruitment process after the state dissolved the corporation. In a notice on February 25, the parastatal ...

This is a tsetse fly target in Kenya. The sheets of dark cloth are coated with the scent of livestock to attract the tsetse and insecticide to kill it. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

John Carlson, Yale University Carlson’s team concocted tsetse perfumes by soaking female flies in hexane. When the researchers spritzed the extracted female tsetse scents on a knotted string of black ...

Sprayed animals act as deadly traps for tsetse flies. Dr Othieno Joseph I have a concern and I think given your links with the agency tasked with eradication of tsetse flies, you are well placed ...

Tsetse fly. It transmits parasites that cause sleeping sickness in humans and Nagana disease in animals. [iStockphoto] Tsetse flies - which transmit tiny parasites that cause sleeping sickness in ...

THE use of membranes in the feeding of insects which possess piercing mouthparts is of considerable interest, because it not only affords a means of studying dietary requirements with a view to ...

The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that recognize and bind to the cell surface of the pathogen, thus marking it as an intruder and triggering an immune response. For ...

analysis of various transgenic fruit fly lines. In addition, the Tsetse Research Group is involved in an evaluation of an X ray irradiator (RS2400) as an alternative to gamma radiation for the ...

Antigenic variation is a key mechanism by which pathogens evade the immune system. New research has shown how trypanosomes change their antigen expression.