Restricted insecticide application: a last mile control option for elimination of acute sleeping sickness and progressive control of African animal trypanosomiasis in South-Eastern Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Animal African trypanosomiasis (AAT) poses a significant impediment to livestock production and economic progress in sub-Saharan Africa. To reduce the burden of AAT in Uganda and contribute to the AAT progressive control pathway, there is a need to develop effective AAT and tsetse control measures. In this study, we assessed a combination of chemotherapy and Restricted Insecticide Application Protocol (RAP) as a last mile control option for the progressive control of AAT and acute sleeping sickness in south- eastern Uganda.

Methods

Cattle from fourteen AAT endemic villages in south-eastern Uganda were treated with two doses of diminazene acecurate 40 days apart and sprayed with deltamethrin once monthly for 6 months following chemotherapy. Both cattle and tsetse f

SUBMITTER: Muhanguzi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12871003 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature