The carrier of the African sleeping sickness organism.
An African insect which passes trypanosomes into the human bloodstream, causing sleeping sickness.
Insect that carries the parasites that cause trypanosomiasis.
A large bloodsucking fly of tropical Africa belonging to the genus Glossina. Tsetse flies, which have slender forwardly projecting biting mouthparts, feed during the day from man and other mammals. When they feed on man, they may transmit the blood parasites that cause sleeping sickness. G. palpalis and G. tachinoides, which are found along river banks, transmit Trypanosoma gambiense; G. morsitans, G. swynnertoni, and G. pallidipes, which are found in savanna country, transmit T. rhodesiense.
An African fly of the genus Glossina. One or more of these is responsible for carrying the trypanosome which causes sleeping sickness and thus spreads the disease among cattle and from cattle to humans.
One of several species of blood-sucking flies belonging to the genus Glossina, order Diptera, confined to Africa south of the Sahara Desert. It is an important transmitter of trypanosomes, the causative agents of African sleeping sicknesses in humans, and nagana and other diseases of cattle and game animals.
An insect predominantly found in Africa, this fly is a carrier of parasitic protozoa from the genus Trypanosoma, which are responsible for causing sleeping sickness in humans and a comparable ailment known as nagana in cattle.