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A tsetse fly (Glossina fuscipes fuscipes) feeding on the head of a monitor lizard (Varanus niloticus).
Tsetse flies are the vectors of human sleeping sickness and nagana in domesticated animals. Glossina fuscipes spp., which currently are responsible for more than 90% of all sleeping sickness cases, are associated with the vegetation along the banks of rivers and lakes and commonly include the reptiles found there in their diet (see Omolo et al., doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000435).
Image Credit: Johan Esterhuizen, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Citation: (2009) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 3(5) May 2009. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 3(5): ev03.i05. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v03.i05
Published: May 26, 2009
Copyright: © 2009 Johan Esterhuizen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Tsetse flies are the vectors of human sleeping sickness and nagana in domesticated animals. Glossina fuscipes spp., which currently are responsible for more than 90% of all sleeping sickness cases, are associated with the vegetation along the banks of rivers and lakes and commonly include the reptiles found there in their diet (see Omolo et al., doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000435).
Image Credit: Johan Esterhuizen, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine