Publications by authors named "Berisha Kapitano"
Article Synopsis
- Ethiopia faces significant challenges with trypanosomosis due to its large cattle population and tsetse fly infestations, prompting the creation of a national atlas by NICETT to map the disease and vector distribution.
- Data collected from 2010 to 2019 revealed that 86% of surveyed districts had African animal trypanosomosis (AAT), with an overall prevalence of 4.8% in cattle, predominantly caused by Trypanosoma congolense and Trypanosoma vivax.
- The atlas serves as a crucial reference for monitoring and controlling tsetse flies and trypanosomosis, highlighting the geographic spread of various tsetse species and their densities across different Ethiopian regions
The sterile insect technique has been successfully used to eliminate tsetse populations in a number of programs. Program monitoring in the field relies on the ability to accurately differentiate released sterile insects from wild insects so that estimates can be made of the ratio of sterile males to wild males. Typically, released flies are marked with a dye, which is not always reliable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The tsetse fly Glossina fuscipes s.l. is responsible for the transmission of approximately 90% of cases of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness.
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