Volume 12, Number 12—December 2006
Dispatch
Human African Trypanosomiasis Transmission, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Table
Survey site | No. traps | No. flies | ADT | No. dissected flies | No. teneral flies | No. human-blood meals | No. pig-blood meals | No. Trypanosoma brucei s.l. | No. TBG |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ndjili Brasserie | 112 | 423 | 0.94 | 244 | 25 | 26 | 18 | 26 | 9 |
Mambre | 108 | 220 | 0.51 | 144 | 13 | 25 | 8 | 12 | 1 |
Kimwenza | 104 | 139 | 0.33 | 93 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 2 |
Kimbanseke | 118 | 57 | 0.12 | 49 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
Ndjili Cecomaf | 58 | 35 | 0.15 | 22 | 3 | 4 | 1 | – | – |
Funa | 110 | 23 | 0.05 | 18 | 1 | 2 | – | 2 | – |
Total | 610 | 897 | 0.37 | 570 | 54 | 78 | 32 | 54 | 13
*ADT, apparent density per trap; teneral flies, young flies that have never taken a blood meal; TBG, T. brucei gambiense group 1. |
*ADT, apparent density per trap; teneral flies, young flies that have never taken a blood meal; TBG, T. brucei gambiense group 1.
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