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Domestic livestock in Africa are of importance not only as a source
of milk and meat but also as a source of animal traction enabling
farmers to cultivate larger areas, with crops providing the staple
foods. Trypanosomosis, a parasitic disease transmitted cyclically
by the tsetse fly (Glossina spp.), is arguably still the main
constraint to livestock production on the continent, preventing
full use of the land to feed the rapidly increasing human
population. Sleeping sickness, the disease caused in humans by
species of Trypanosoma, is an important and neglected disease
posing a threat to millions of people in tsetse-infested areas.
Often wrongly thought of as a disease of the past, the prevalence
of human sleeping sickness is increasing in many areas.Although
alternative methods to control the disease are being investigated,
such as immunological approaches, use of chemotherapy or
exploitation of the trypanotolerance trait, it is only control or
eradication of the tsetse fly vector which will remove the threat
of the disease rather than providing a better means of "living"
with it. As a result of the economic impact of tsetse-transmitted
Trypanosomosis, a large amount of research literature has been
produced. This book provides a comprehensive review of this
literature. The text is divided into four parts: tsetse biology and
ecology, epidemiology, vector control and control of
trypanosomosis. The book is invaluable for medical and veterinary
entomologists, parasitologists and epidemiologists.
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