Edited by Adly M.M. Abd-Alla, George Tsiamis, and Drion Boucias.
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):141
Volume 18 Supplement 1
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Edited by Adly M.M. Abd-Alla, George Tsiamis, and Drion Boucias.
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):141
With the absence of effective prophylactic vaccines and drugs against African trypanosomosis, control of this group of zoonotic neglected tropical diseases depends the control of the tsetse fly vector. When ap...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):179
Research on the zoo-anthropophilic blood feeding tsetse flies’ biology conducted, by different teams, in laboratory settings and at the level of the ecosystems- where also co-perpetuate African Trypanosoma- has a...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):162
Tsetse flies (Glossina sp.) refractory to trypanosome infection are currently being explored as potential tools to contribute in the control of human and animal African trypanosomiasis. One approach to disrupt tr...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):165
Tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae) are the cyclical vectors of the causative agents of African Trypanosomosis, which has been identified as a neglected tropical disease in both humans and animals in many regi...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):160
The tsetse fly (Glossina sp.) midgut is colonized by maternally transmitted and environmentally acquired bacteria. Additionally, the midgut serves as a niche in which pathogenic African trypanosomes reside within...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):146
Susceptibility of tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) to trypanosomes of both humans and animals has been associated with the presence of the endosymbiont Sodalis glossinidius. However, intrinsic biological characterist...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):163
Tsetse flies are vectors of human and animal African trypanosomiasis. In spite of many decades of chemotherapy and vector control, the disease has not been eradicated. Other methods like the transformation of ...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):159
Tsetse flies are vectors of African trypanosomes, protozoan parasites that cause sleeping sickness (or human African trypanosomosis) in humans and nagana (or animal African trypanosomosis) in livestock. In add...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):153
Glossina pallidipes is a haematophagous insect that serves as a cyclic transmitter of trypanosomes causing African Trypanosomiasis (AT). To fully assess the role of G. pallidipes in the epidemiology of AT, especi...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):164
Tsetse flies (Diptera, Glossinidae) display unique reproductive biology traits. Females reproduce through adenotrophic viviparity, nourishing the growing larva into their modified uterus until parturition. Mal...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):169
Microbiota plays an important role in the biology, ecology and evolution of insects including tsetse flies. The bacterial profile of 3 Glossina palpalis gambiensis laboratory colonies was examined using 16S rRNA ...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):148
In African tsetse flies Glossina, spp. detection of bacterial symbionts such as Wolbachia is challenging since their prevalence and distribution are patchy, and natural symbiont titers can range at levels far bel...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):140
Symbiotic microbes represent a driving force of evolutionary innovation by conferring novel ecological traits to their hosts. Many insects are associated with microbial symbionts that contribute to their host’...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):145
Tsetse flies are vectors of trypanosomes, parasites that cause devastating disease in humans and livestock. In the course of vector control programmes it is necessary to know about the Glossina species present in...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):180
Tsetse flies are vectors of African trypanosomes, and their vectorial capacity results in a major public health emergency and vast economic losses in sub-Saharan Africa. Given the limited ability of trypanosom...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):144
Tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae) are solely responsible for the transmission of African trypanosomes, causative agents of sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in livestock. Due to the lack of efficient va...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):147
Hytrosaviruses (SGHVs; Hytrosaviridae family) are double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) viruses that cause salivary gland hypertrophy (SGH) syndrome in flies. Two structurally and functionally distinct SGHVs are recognized...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):183
The management of the tsetse species Glossina pallidipes (Diptera; Glossinidae) in Africa by the sterile insect technique (SIT) has been hindered by infections of G. pallidipes production colonies with Glossina p...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):143
Tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae) are the vectors of African trypanosomosis, the causal agent of sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in animals. Glossina fuscipes fuscipes is one of the most important tsetse...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):161
Glossina pallidipes salivary gland hypertrophy virus (GpSGHV; Hytrosaviridae) is a non-occluded dsDNA virus that specifically infects the adult stages of the hematophagous tsetse flies (Glossina species, Diptera:...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):170
Tsetse fly-borne trypanosomiasis remains a significant problem in Africa despite years of interventions and research. The need for new strategies to control and possibly eliminate trypanosomiasis cannot be ove...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):142
The tsetse fly (Glossina genus) is the main vector of African trypanosomes, which are protozoan parasites that cause human and animal African trypanosomiases in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the frame of the IAEA/FAO pr...
Citation: BMC Microbiology 2018 18(Suppl 1):150
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