Table 2.
Tsetse species (NTA) | Type of infections | Body parts | Trypanosome species | NIT (%) |
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Glossina morsitans submorsitans (345) | Single infections | Proboscis or tsetse body | T. simiae (64 b and 4 p) | 68 (19.7) |
TCS (39 b and 16 p) | 55 (15.9) | |||
T. vivax (7 b and 32 p) | 39 (11.3) | |||
T. goffreyi (30 b and 4 p) | 34 (9.8) | |||
Total of single infections | 196 (56.7) | |||
Mixed infections | Tsetse body | T. simiae and TCS | 2(0.6) | |
T. simiae and T. godfreyi | 1 (0.3) | |||
T. godfreyi and TCS | 2 (0.6) | |||
T. simiae and T. vivax | 1 (0.3) | |||
Mixed infections in tsetse body | 6 (1.7) | |||
Proboscis and tsetse body | T. simiae (b) and T. vivax (p) | 5 (1.4) | ||
TCS (b) and T. vivax (p) | 3 (1.4) | |||
T. godfreyi (b) and T. vivax (p) | 2 (0.6) | |||
Mixed infections in proboscis and tsetse body | 10 (2.9) | |||
Total of mixed infections | 16 (4.6) | |||
Total of infected G. m. submorsitans | 212 (61.4) | |||
G. fuscipes fuscipes (11) | Single infections (proboscis (p) or tsetse body (b) | T. simiae (b) | 2 (18.2) | |
TCS (b) | 3 (27.2) | |||
T. vivax (1 b and 1 p) | 2 (18.2) | |||
T. goffreyi (b) | 1 (9.1) | |||
Total of infected G. f. fuscipes | 8 (72.7) | |||
G. tachinoides (3) | Single infections (Proboscis or tsetse body) | TCS (b) | 1 (33.3) | |
T. vivax (p) | 1 (33.3) | |||
Total of infected G. tachinoides | 2 (66.6) | |||
Total (359) | 222 (61.8) |
NIT Number of infected tsetse flies, NTA Number of tsetse flies analysed, TCS Trypanosoma congolense savannah, p proboscis, b tsetse body