Tsetse fly - Wikipedia
网页The tsetse is an obligate parasite, which lives by feeding on the blood of vertebrate animals. Tsetse has been extensively studied because of their role in transmitting disease. They have a pronounced economic impact in sub-Saharan Africa as the biological vectors of trypanosomes, causing human and animal trypanosomiasis.
Sleeping Sickness (African Trypanosomiasis) - CDC
网页2024年9月10日 · Sleeping sickness (i.e., human African trypanosomiasis or HAT)) is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma brucei. A parasite is an organism (a living thing) that lives on or inside another organism. Sleeping sickness spreads through the bite of a tsetse fly (Glossina species), found only in rural, sub-Saharan Africa.
African Trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping Sickness)
网页African sleeping sickness is a disease caused by a parasite. It is passed on by the bite of the infected tsetse fly. The only risk factor is travel to parts of Africa where the tsetse fly is found. The only way to prevent the disease is to avoid …
Tsetse fly | African Insect, Vector of Disease | Britannica
网页2024年8月30日 · tsetse fly, (genus Glossina), any of about two to three dozen species of bloodsucking flies in the housefly family, Muscidae (order Diptera), that occur only in Africa and transmit sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis) in humans and a similar disease called nagana in domestic animals.
Trypanosomiasis, human African (sleeping sickness)
网页Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is caused by protozoan parasites transmitted by infected tsetse flies. It is endemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Without treatment, HAT is generally fatal. Most exposed people live in rural areas and depend on agriculture, fishing, animal husbandry or hunting.
Neglected tropical diseases: Sleeping sickness (human African ...
网页2020年7月7日 · Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, is a parasitic disease transmitted by the bite of the Glossina, commonly known as the tsetse fly. The disease mostly affects poor populations living in remote rural areas of Africa. Untreated, it is usually fatal.
Human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
网页2024年6月20日 · Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, is caused by trypanosome parasites that are transmitted by tsetse flies. HAT is found only in sub-Saharan Africa. Two subspecies of Trypanosoma brucei cause disease: T. b. gambiense in West and Central Africa, and T. b. rhodesiense in East Africa.
Sequencing Tsetse Fly Genome Reveals Surprises That May Save …
网页2014年4月24日 · The genome of the tsetse fly—a disease-ridden insect with surprisingly mammalian biology that stalks the people and livestock of sub-Saharan Africa—has been decoded, a team of 146 scientists...
Newly identified tsetse fly pheromone may help curb disease spread
网页2023年2月16日 · Yale scientists have for the first time identified a volatile pheromone emitted by the tsetse fly, a blood-sucking insect that spreads diseases in both humans and animals across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
Understanding tsetse fly populations for better control - Nature
网页2021年3月24日 · Acting as the biological vector of the parasite causing human sleeping sickness, the tsetse flies population has a strong impact on sub-Saharan Africa. Credit: blickwinkel / Alamy Stock Photo