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Table 6 Summary of salivary gland infections. Breakdown of infections 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 paired salivary glands

Total no. of flies

No. of flies with infected salivary glands (week of dissection)

  

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Both mixed

13

6

2

2

1

 

1

 

1

1 mixed, 1 green

5

1

1

3

     

1 mixed, 1 red

3

  

1

  

2

  

1 mixed, 1 uninfected

1

  

1

     

1 green, 1 red

4

1

1

2

     

Both green

11

1

2

1

3

1

1

1

1

Both red

2

  

1

  

1

  

1 green, 1 uninfected

11

 

1

3

6

 

1

  

1 red, 1 uninfected

10

 

6

3

  

1

  

Total

60

9

13

17

10

1

7

1

2

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Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease

ISSN: 1475-9292