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Ecology and epidemiological importance of Glossina palpalis in the Ivory Coast forest zone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2011

Albert Challier  and
Jean Paul Gouteux
Albert Challier
Affiliation:
International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, P.O. Box 30772, Nairobi, Kenya
Jean Paul Gouteux
Affiliation:
Mission O.R.S.T.O.M., auprès de I'O.C.C.G.E., Bobo-Dioulasso, Haute-Volta
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Abstract

Ecological surveys were carried out to assess the population characteristics and epidemiological importance of Glossina palpalis palpalis (Rob-Desv.), 1830 in the human trypanosomiasis focus of Vavoua in the forest zone of Ivory Coast. G. p. palpalis was widespread in all components of the ecosystem: forest, interstitial savannahs, coffee plantations, tracks and villages. Most flies were caught at the forest edge. Sex ratio and age composition of populations varied in relation to trapping sites. Open areas were dispersal places. Plantations provided resting, feeding and breeding sites giving rise to close man–fly contact. Here, teneral flies could become infected and later on transmit trypanosomes to plantation workers and their families. The role of man and domestic pigs together with that of fly behaviour and genetic factors in the transmission of the disease are discussed. Methods of tsetse control are suggested in the light of the findings.

Keywords

Glossina palpalistsetse flyecologyepidemiologyIvory Coast
Type
Research Article
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International Journal of Tropical Insect Science , Volume 1 , Issue 1: Epidemiology of African Trypanosomiasis , March 1980 , pp. 77 - 83
Copyright
Copyright © ICIPE 1980

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