Mechanical transmission of Trypanosoma spp. by African Stomoxyinae (Diptera: Muscidae)

Publication Type

Journal Article

Journal Name

Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Publication Date

1-1-1995

Abstract

Ten taxa of Stomoxyinae were tested for their ability to transmit Trypanosoma brucei, T. vivax, T. evansi and T. congolense to mice within 3 min of interrupted feeding on highly parasitaemic blood. T. brucei was the easiest parasite to transmit with an 11.5 % success rate, followed by T. vivax at 3.4 %, and T. evansi at 0.9 %. T. congolense was not transmitted in 129 attempts. Stomoxys niger sspp. and four unstudied species (S. varipes, S. taeniatus, S. pallidus, Haematoboscu squalida) were capable of transmitting trypanosomes mechanically.

PubMed ID

8525279

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