A tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans) next to a match stick head
1998
Robinson, J. | Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa)
Colour photo. Original document size: (w)7 x (h)4.61 cm. Original scanned size: 268 kb JPEG, 600 dpi. Final web-ready size: 28.65 kb. Estimate download time: 11 sec. @ 28.8 kbps. Original TIFF file housed at the Dept. Veterinary Tropical Diseases, University of Pretoria. Metadata assigned by Prof. R.C. Tustin, Professor Emeritus: DVTD. His academic and professional experience includes: veterinarian for 54 years, senior lecturer at UP for 7 years, head of Department at UP for 17 years and Veterinary Council for 3 years.
Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]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 or even always the principal transmitting agent; it is the vector of t. Brucei rhodesiense, one of the pathogenic agents of East african, Rhodesian, or acute sleeping sickness.
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