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Torr, Steve 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9550-4030 and Vale, G.A.
(2015)
'Know your foe: lessons from the analysis of tsetse fly behaviour'. Trends in Parasitology, Vol 31, Issue 3, pp. 95-99.
Abstract
The emergence of new vector-borne diseases requires new methods of vector control. These diseases are often zoonoses associated with wilderness areas, and established methods of vector control used in domestic settings (e.g., indoor-residual spraying, insecticide-treated bednets) are therefore inappropriate. Similar difficulties are also emerging with the control of ‘old’ vector-borne diseases such as malaria. Understanding the host-finding behaviour of vectors assists the development and application of control methods and aids the understanding of epidemiology. Some general lessons are illustrated by reference to a century of research on the hostfinding behaviour of tsetse flies which transmit trypanosomes causing human and animal trypanosomiases, including Rhodesian sleeping sickness, a zoonosis associated with wilderness areas of sub-Saharan Africa
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