Analysis of multiple tsetse fly populations in Uganda reveals limited diversity and species-specific gut microbiota

E Aksoy, EL Telleria, R Echodu, Y Wu… - Applied and …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
The invertebrate microbiome contributes to multiple aspects of host physiology, including
nutrient supplementation and immune maturation processes. We identified and compared …

Analysis of the gut-specific microbiome from field-captured tsetse flies, and its potential relevance to host trypanosome vector competence

BC Griffith, BL Weiss, E Aksoy, PO Mireji, JE Auma… - BMC microbiology, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background The tsetse fly (Glossina sp.) midgut is colonized by maternally
transmitted and environmentally acquired bacteria. Additionally, the midgut serves as a …

Tsetse fly microbiota: form and function

J Wang, BL Weiss, S Aksoy - Frontiers in cellular and infection …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Tsetse flies are the primary vectors of African trypanosomes, which cause Human and
Animal African trypanosomiasis in 36 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. These flies have also …

Implications of microfauna-host interactions for trypanosome transmission dynamics in Glossina fuscipes fuscipes in Uganda

U Alam, C Hyseni, RE Symula… - Applied and …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT Tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae) are vectors for African trypanosomes
(Euglenozoa: kinetoplastida), protozoan parasites that cause African trypanosomiasis in …

Sodalis glossinidius presence in wild tsetse is only associated with presence of trypanosomes in complex interactions with other tsetse-specific factors

M Channumsin, M Ciosi, D Masiga, CMR Turner… - BMC microbiology, 2018 - Springer
Background Susceptibility of tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) to trypanosomes of both humans
and animals has been associated with the presence of the endosymbiont Sodalis …

Wolbachia, Sodalis and trypanosome co-infections in natural populations of Glossina austeni and Glossina pallidipes

FN Wamwiri, U Alam, PC Thande, E Aksoy… - Parasites & vectors, 2013 - Springer
Background Tsetse flies harbor at least three bacterial symbionts: Wigglesworthia
glossinidia, Wolbachia pipientis and Sodalis glossinidius. Wigglesworthia and Sodalis …

Blood feeding tsetse flies as hosts and vectors of mammals-pre-adapted African Trypanosoma: current and expected research directions

A Geiger, I Malele, AM Abd-Alla, F Njiokou - BMC microbiology, 2018 - Springer
Research on the zoo-anthropophilic blood feeding tsetse flies' biology conducted, by
different teams, in laboratory settings and at the level of the ecosystems-where also co …

Prevalence of symbionts and trypanosome infections in tsetse flies of two villages of the “Faro and Déo” division of the Adamawa region of Cameroon

GI Kame-Ngasse, F Njiokou, TT Melachio-Tanekou… - BMC microbiology, 2018 - Springer
Background Tsetse flies are vectors of human and animal African trypanosomiasis. In spite
of many decades of chemotherapy and vector control, the disease has not been eradicated …

The composition and abundance of bacterial communities residing in the gut of Glossina palpalis palpalis captured in two sites of southern Cameroon

JM Tsagmo Ngoune, J Reveillaud, G Sempere… - Parasites & vectors, 2019 - Springer
Background A number of reports have demonstrated the role of insect bacterial flora on their
host's physiology and metabolism. The tsetse host and vector of trypanosomes responsible …

Tripartite interactions between tsetse flies, Sodalis glossinidius and trypanosomes—an epidemiological approach in two historical human African trypanosomiasis foci …

O Farikou, F Njiokou, JAM Mbida… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2010 - Elsevier
Epidemiological surveys were conducted in two historical human African trypanosomiasis
foci in South Cameroon, Bipindi and Campo. In each focus, three sampling areas were …