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Table 3 Comparison of infections in proventriculus and salivary glands in individual flies

From: Dynamics of infection and competition between two strains of Trypanosoma brucei bruceiin the tsetse fly observed using fluorescent markers

Trypanosome strain(s) in salivary glands

Ratio of red and green trypanosome strains in proventriculus

 

Red > green

Red = green

Red < green

Green only

6

1

4

Red & green

11

1

1

Red only

7

0

0

Total no. of flies with infected salivary glands

24

2

5

Total no. of flies with uninfected salivary glands

193

61

46

Total

217

63

51