title: Improving the cost-effectiveness of visual devices for the control of riverine tsetse flies, the major vectors of human African trypanosomiasis.
abstract: Control of the Riverine (Palpalis) group of tsetse flies is normally achieved with stationary artificial devices such as traps or insecticide-treated targets. The efficiency of biconical traps (the standard control device), 1×1 m black targets and small 25×25 cm targets with flanking nets was compared using electrocuting sampling methods. The work was done on Glossina tachinoides and G. palpalis gambiensis (Burkina Faso), G. fuscipes quanzensis (Democratic Republic of Congo), G. f. martinii (Tanzania) and G. f. fuscipes (Kenya). The killing effectiveness (measured as the catch per m(2) of cloth) for small targets plus flanking nets is 5.5-15X greater than for 1 m(2) targets and 8.6-37.5X greater than for biconical traps. This has important implications for the costs of control of the Riverine group of tsetse vectors of sleeping sickness.
authors.affiliation: Vector Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Johan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Esterhuizen
authors.forename: Jean Baptiste
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Rayaisse
authors.forename: Inaki
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tirados
authors.forename: Serge
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mpiana
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Solano
authors.forename: Glyn A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Vale
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Lehane
authors.forename: Stephen J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Torr
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D015023:Democratic Republic of the Congo; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007300:Insect Control / Q000191:economics* / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000469:parasitology / Q000502:physiology*; D007630:Kenya; D008297:Male; D013636:Tanzania; D014347:Trypanosoma brucei gambiense / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014353:Trypanosomiasis, African / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014370:Tsetse Flies / Q000469:parasitology / Q000502:physiology*