SYMBIOTIC BACTERIA SODALIS GLOSSINIDIUS, SPIROPLASMA SP AND WOLBACHIA DO NOT FAVOUR TRYPANOSOMA GRAYI COEXISTENCE IN WILD POPULATION OF TSETSE FLIES COLLECTED IN BOBO-DIOULASSO, BURKINA FASO

Abstract Background Tsetse flies, the biological vectors of African trypanosomes, have established symbiotic associations with different bacteria.Their vector competence is suggested to be affected by bacterial endosymbionts.The current study provided the prevalence of three tsetse symbiotic bacteria and trypanosomes in Glossina species from Burkin

Khaled Alawneh,1 Bashar Abuzayed,2 Majdi Al Qawasmeh,3 Liqaa Raffee,4 Abdelwahab Aleshawi5 1Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid 22110, Jordan; 2Department of Neurosurgery, The Specialty Hospital, Amman, Jordan; 3Department of Neuroscience, Division of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Jorda

The increasing use/abuse of psychotropic drugs is an alarming social phenomenon with repercusions in many areas, especially in reliability engineering.The aim of this paper is to present a method developed by a multidisciplinary team composed of ergonomists, psychiatrists, information technologists, and reliability engineers to quantitatively consi

Tropical forests are predicted to harbor most of the insect diversity on earth, but few studies have been conducted to characterize insect communities in tropical forests.One major limitation is the lack of consensus on methods for insect collection.Deciding which insect trap to use is an important consideration for ecologists and entomologists, ye