Tsetse peritrophic matrix influences for trypanosome transmission

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Tsetse flies are important vectors of parasitic African trypanosomes, agents of human and animal trypanosomiasis. Easily administrable and effective tools for disease control in the mammalian host are still lacking but reduction of the tsetse vector populations can reduce disease. An alternative approach is to reduce the transmission of trypanosomes in the tsetse vector. The gut peritrophic matrix (PM) has...

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