The behaviour of trypanosomes within the midguts of wild-caught tsetse from Zimbabwe.
Trypanosomes infecting the midgut of wild-caught tsetse from Zimbabwe were found on electron microscopic examination to be penetrating the peritrophic membranes and so entering the ecto-peritrophic space in the mycetome region of the midgut. Other trypanosomes entered midgut cells, behaviour similar to that previously reported in laboratory-infected tsetse colonies.
D000818:Animals; D007422:Intestines / Q000469:parasitology; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D014346:Trypanosoma brucei brucei / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D014348:Trypanosoma congolense / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D014370:Tsetse Flies / Q000469:parasitology*