Two years ago, a 71-year-old Indiana man impaled his hand on a branch after cutting down a dead crab apple tree, causing an infection that led University of Utah scientists to discover a new bacterium and solve a mystery ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 15, 2012
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An unprecedented study of intra-uterine lactation in the tsetse fly, published 18 April 2012 in Biology of Reproduction's Papers-in-Press, reveals that an enzyme found in the fly's milk functions similarly in mammals, making ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 18, 2012
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Flies which feast on blood—such as tsetse and horse flies—inflict painful bites and spread debilitating diseases among people and animals alike. So a lot of work has gone into designing the most efficient traps to control ...
Other
Jul 5, 2023
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Tsetse are biting flies that transmit the parasites causing sleeping sickness in humans and Nagana in animals. Female tsetse flies, which give birth to enormous, adult-sized live young, can experience miscarriages and these ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 15, 2023
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The tsetse fly is an exception to the almost universal law of nature that babies are born smaller than their mothers.
Plants & Animals
Nov 4, 2020
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Tsetse flies are bloodthirsty. Natives of sub-Saharan Africa, tsetse flies can transmit the microbe Trypanosoma when they take a blood meal. That's the protozoan that causes African sleeping sickness in people; without treatment, ...
Ecology
Jul 29, 2020
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The tsetse fly occurs in large regions of sub-Saharan Africa. The flies feed on human and animal blood, transmitting trypanosoma in the process—small, single-cell organisms that use the flies as intermediate host and cause ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 22, 2020
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A new study on a Bahamian bat makes the case for using the species' unusual parasites to reveal details about the species' populations on the archipelago. Using parasites to glean information about their hosts isn't a new ...
Ecology
Jul 29, 2019
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The tsetse fly, also known as the "fly of death" and the "poverty fly," is the primary means of transmission for the parasite that causes trypanosomosis.
Ecology
Apr 3, 2019
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Tstetes flies have been eradicated in an entire region of Senegal. This victory was due to be announced by Senegal's president at a ceremony on Dec. 8. It is the fruit of a longstanding collaboration between CIRAD, the Institut ...
Ecology
Dec 12, 2018
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