Browsing Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute by Subject "Blood feeding flies"

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Browsing Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute by Subject "Blood feeding flies"

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  • Harris tsetse fly trap used in Zululand during 1930's 
    Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa) (2008-03-28)
    Several methods have been or are used to control trypanosomosis. Some of these are: 1. Control of the vectors (i.e. tsetse flies [Glossina spp]) -- 1.1. Remove their source of food (i.e. blood of animals) by reducing the ...
  • Scanning electron micrograph of a trypanosome (Trypanosoma sp.) 
    Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa) (2008-02-27)
    In Africa, protozoon parasites of the genus Trypanosoma are responsible for causing what is probably still the most important disease of domestic livestock in Africa south of the Sahara Desert i.e. African animal trypanosomosis ...
  • A tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans) next to a match stick head 
    Robinson, J.; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa) (2008-04-17)
    Glossina morsitans, a species originally thought to be the sole transmitter of Trypanosoma brucei brucei, the cause of nagana in central Africa; this species transmits this disease in some regions, but it is not the sole ...