The Educational Tsetse Fly La mouche tsé-tsé pédagogique

Bilingual French/English

Contents

A very brief overview

What is a tsetse fly? ♦ Tsetse flies in Africa ♦ One unique fly ♦ Many forms ♦ A mosaic portrait ♦ A journey within a tsetse fly ♦ Reproductive features ♦ Fives senses ♦ A blood meal ♦ Above and below ground ♦ The secret of endosymbionts ♦ Adult longevity ♦ Dispersal potential ♦ The value of roosting ♦ The three partners  ♦ An infected lifestyle ♦ A bridge between species.

What is trypanosome? ♦ Infecting forms ♦ Cellular intimacy ♦ Encounter with the host ♦ A shared lifecycle  ♦ Adaptation to flies ♦ Adaptation to mammals.

What is trypanosomosis? ♦ From trypanosomes to trypanosomosis .

What is nagana disease? ♦ Nagana disease symptoms ♦ Natural resistance of animals ♦ Veterinarian treatments.

What is sleeping sickness? ♦ Two diseases in one ♦ Sleeping sickness symptoms ♦ Diagnostic features ♦ Natural resistance of humans ♦ Current drugs used.

What protective measures can be taken? ♦ Chemical control ♦ Ecological control ♦ Biological control ♦ Integrated control.

A constraint to development ♦ The high cost of cohabitation .

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