Optimizing the feeding frequency to maximize the production of sterile males in tsetse mass-rearing colonies.

Tsetse flies are cyclical vectors of trypanosomes, the causative agents of sleeping sickness or Human African Trypanosomosis and nagana or African Animal Trypanosomosis in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Insectarium de Bobo-Dioulasso (IBD) was created and equipped in the frame of Pan African Tsetse and Tryp...

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Main Authors: Soumaïla Pagabeleguem, Ange Irénée Toé, Sié Hermann Pooda, Kiswendsida Mikhailou Dera, Abdou Salam Belem, Adrien Marie Gaston Belem, Gisèle Marie Sophie Ouedraogo/Sanou, Mamadou Ira, Bénéwendé Aristide Kaboré, Lassané Percoma, Issa Sidibé
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245503