Environmental mutations in the Campo focus challenge elimination of sleeping sickness transmission in Cameroon.

ABSTRACT: Sleeping sickness is still prevalent in Campo, southern Cameroon, despite the efforts of World Health Organization and the National Control Programme in screening and treating cases. Reducing disease incidence still further may need the control of tsetse vectors. We update entomological and parasitological parameters necessary to guide tsetse control in Campo. Tsetse flies were trapped, their apparent densities were evaluated as the number of flies captured per trap per day and mapped using GIS tools. Polymerase chain reaction based methods were used to identify their trypanosome infection rates. Glossina palpalis palpalis was the dominant vector species representing 93.42% and 92.85% of flies captured respectively during the heavy and light dry seasons. This species presented high densiti

SUBMITTER: Melachio Tanekou TT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10138755 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature