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Tsetse Fly
Female pregnant tsetse, Glossina morsitans morsitans. Tsetse are vectors of African trypanosomes, agents of sleeping sickness in sub-Saharan Africa. In this issue of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Changyun Hu, Rita V. M. Rio, and colleagues (see e192) report on tsetse-trypanosome interactions, with a focus on host immune response activation of gut infections and its subsequent impact on tsetse's reproductive fitness.
Image Credit: Geoffrey M. Attardo
Citation: (2008) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 2(3) March 2008. PLoS Neglect Trop Dis 2(3): ev02.i03. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v02.i03
Published: March 14, 2008
Copyright: © 2008 Attardo. 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.
Female pregnant tsetse, Glossina morsitans morsitans. Tsetse are vectors of African trypanosomes, agents of sleeping sickness in sub-Saharan Africa. In this issue of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Changyun Hu, Rita V. M. Rio, and colleagues (see e192) report on tsetse-trypanosome interactions, with a focus on host immune response activation of gut infections and its subsequent impact on tsetse's reproductive fitness.
Image Credit: Geoffrey M. Attardo