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1. Introduction
2. Diseases caused by tsetse fly
3. Trypanosome lifecycle
4. Tsetse flies are essentially present in Africa only
5. Nagana - cost
6. Nagana - nature
7. Sleeping sickness
8. Prevalence of disease
9. Areas of highest prevalence
10. Sleeping sickness - two distinct diseases
11. The danger from overlap of the two diseases
12. Sleeping sickness - two phases
13. Sleeping sickness - diagnosis
14. Control and treatment - no vaccines
15. Control and treatment
16. Geographical separation
17. Nagana and trypanotolerance
18. Drugs for nagana
19. Drugs for sleeping sickness
20. Active case detection and treatment
21. Killing tsetse flies
22. Tsetse species and sub-species
23. Morsitans group habitat
24. Palpalis group habitat
25. Tsetse fly life cycle (1)
26. Tsetse flies feed exclusively on blood
27. Tsetse fly life cycle (2)
28. Control of tsetse flies over large areas
29. Aerial spraying in Okavango delta, 2002-3
30. Control of tsetse flies by live targets
31. Control by artificial targets
32. Control by Sterile Insect Technique (SIT)
33. Summary
34. Acknowledgements

Topics Covered

• Sleeping sickness and nagana
• Major treatments
• Shortcomings of current treatment regimes and why vector control is important
• Introduction to tsetse biology
• Primary methods of tsetse fly control

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Series:

• Vector-Borne Diseases

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Microbiology

Therapeutic Areas:

• Infectious Diseases

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Publication History

• Published on October 27, 2010

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Mike Lehane has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.