Quality of Sterile Male Tsetse after Long Distance Transport as Chilled, Irradiated Pupae.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tsetse flies transmit trypanosomes that cause human and African animal trypanosomosis, a debilitating disease of humans (sleeping sickness) and livestock (nagana). An area-wide integrated pest management campaign against Glossina palpalis gambiensis has been implemented in Senegal since 2010 that includes a sterile insect technique (SIT) component. The SIT can only be successful when the sterile males that are destined for release have a flight ability, survival and competitiveness that are as close as possible to that of their wild male counterparts.

Methodology/principal findings

Tests were developed to assess the quality of G. p. gambiensis males that emerged from pupae that were produced and irradiated in Burkina Faso and Slovakia (irradiation done in Seibersd

SUBMITTER: Seck MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4642948 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature