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Modeling the Control of Trypanosomiasis Using Trypanocides or Insecticide-Treated Livestock
15 May 2012
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BACKGROUND: In Uganda, Rhodesian sleeping sickness, caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, and animal trypanosomiasis caused by T. vivax and T. congolense, are being controlled by treating cattle with trypanocides and/or insecticides. We used a mathematical model to identify treatment coverages required to break transmission when host populations consisted of various proportions of wild and domestic mammals,...
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