Twenty-three extant species of tsetse flies are known from the African continent as well as the Arabian Peninsula. The word tsetse means "fly" in Tswana, a Bantu...

between mammal hosts by an insect vector belonging to different species of tsetse fly (Glossina). Transmission occurs by biting during the insect's blood meal...

reported cases. Both are usually transmitted by the bite of an infected tsetse fly and are most common in rural areas. Initially, the first stage of the...

most of northern Mexico. The tsetse fly was eradicated from Zanzibar in 1998 and Senegal in 2014. The Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly, Ceratitis capitata...

it almost immediately pupates with no freely feeding larval stage. The tsetse fly (as well as other Glossinidae, Hippoboscidae, Nycteribidae and Streblidae)...

frogs. In 1903, David Bruce identified the protozoan parasite and the tsetse fly vector of African trypanosomiasis. A number of different methods demonstrate...

Glossina morsitans is a species of tsetse fly in the genus Glossina. It is one of the major vectors of Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense in African savannas...

Chagas disease causes 21,000 deaths per year mainly in Latin America. The tsetse fly bite erupts into a red chancre sore and within a few weeks, the person...

species of gram-negative bacteria that is a bacterial endosymbiont of the tsetse fly. Because of this relationship, Wigglesworthia has lost a large part of...

African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), surrounding the area of the tsetse fly bite.[citation needed] Similarities between the conditions chancre and...