Improving the Cost-Effectiveness of Visual Devices for the Control of Riverine Tsetse Flies, the Major Vectors of Human African Trypanosomiasis

Johan Esterhuizen; Jean Baptiste Rayaisse; Inaki Tirados; Serge Mpiana; Philippe Solano; Glyn A. Vale; Michael J. Lehane; Stephen Torr

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0001257

Improving the Cost-Effectiveness of Visual Devices for the Control of Riverine Tsetse Flies, the Major Vectors of Human African Trypanosomiasis

Johan Esterhuizen, Jean Baptiste Rayaisse, Inaki Tirados, Serge Mpiana, Philippe Solano, Glyn A. Vale, Michael J. Lehane, Stephen Torr

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Control of the Riverine (Palpalis) group of tsetse flies is normally achieved with stationary artificial devices such as traps or insecticide-treated targets. The efficiency of biconical traps (the standard control device), 1×1 m black targets and small 25×25 cm targets with flanking nets was compared using electrocuting sampling methods. The work was done on Glossina tachinoides and G. palpalis gambiensis (Burkina Faso), G. fuscipes quanzensis (Democratic Republic of Congo), G. f. martinii (Tanzania) and G. f. fuscipes (Kenya). The killing effectiveness (measured as the catch per m2 of cloth) for small targets plus flanking nets is 5.5–15X greater than for 1 m2 targets and 8.6–37.5X greater than for biconical traps. This has important implications for the costs of control of the Riverine group of tsetse vectors of sleeping sickness.

Original language	English
Article number	e1257
Pages (from-to)	e1257
Journal	PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Volume	5
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001257
Publication status	Published - 2 Aug 2011

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Improving the Cost-Effectiveness of Visual Devices for the Control of Riverine Tsetse Flies, the Major Vectors of Human African Trypanosomiasis

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