Tsetse Biology and Ecology: Their Role in the Epidemiology and Control of Trypanosomosis

by Cabi

Domestic livestock in Africa are of importance not only as a source of milk and meat but also as a source of animal traction enabling farmers to cultivate larger areas, with crops providing the staple foods. Trypanosomosis, a parasitic disease transmitted cyclically by the tsetse fly (Glossina spp.), is arguably still the main constraint to livestock production on the continent, preventing full use of the land to feed the rapidly increasing human...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851993001
• ISBN13: 9780851993003
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Cabi
• Length: 592 Pages