Know your foe: Lessons from the analysis of tsetse fly behaviour

摘要: The emergence of new vector-borne diseases requires methods vector control. These are often zoonoses associated with wilderness areas, and established control used in domestic settings (e.g., indoor-residual spraying, insecticide-treated bednets) therefore inappropriate. Similar difficulties also emerging the ‘old’ such as malaria. Understanding host-finding behaviour vectors assists development application aids understanding epidemiology. Some general lessons illustrated by reference to a century research on tsetse flies which transmit trypanosomes causing human animal trypanosomiases, including Rhodesian sleeping sickness, zoonosis areas sub-Saharan Africa.