Tsetse Control and the Elimination of Gambian Sleeping Sickness

Mike Lehane; Idriss Alfaroukh; Bruno Bucheton; Mamadou Camara; Angi Harris; Dramane Kaba; Crispin Lumbala; Mallaye Peka; Jean-Baptiste Rayaisse; Charles Waiswa; Philippe Solano; Steve Torr

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004437

Tsetse Control and the Elimination of Gambian Sleeping Sickness

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 Apr 29;10(4):e0004437. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004437. eCollection 2016 Apr.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.
² IRED, B. P. 433, N'Djaména, Chad.
³ IRD, UMR 177 IRD-CIRAD INTERTRYP, PNLTHA-Ministère de la Santé, Conakry, Republique de Guinee.
⁴ PNLTHA, Ministère de la Santé, Conakry, Republique de Guinee.
⁵ Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
⁶ Institut Pierre Richet / Institut National de Santé Publique, BP V 47 Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
⁷ National Human African Trypanosomiasis Control Program, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
⁸ PNLTHA, Ministry of Health, N'Djaména, Chad.
⁹ CIRDES URBIO, 01 BP 454, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.
¹⁰ Department of Biomolecular and Biolaboratory Sciences, School of Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
¹¹ IRD, UMR 177 IRD-CIRAD INTERTRYP, CIRDES 01 BP 454, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Disease Eradication*
Disease Transmission, Infectious / prevention & control*
Gambia / epidemiology
Humans
Insect Control / methods*
Insect Vectors*
Trypanosomiasis, African / epidemiology*
Trypanosomiasis, African / prevention & control*
Tsetse Flies / growth & development*

Grants and funding

The work was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.