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Table 3 Trypanosoma congolense subspp. detected using ITS1 PCR in abdomen and ‘head plus proboscis’ DNA preparations

From: Molecular identification of different trypanosome species and subspecies in tsetse flies of northern Nigeria

  

Abdomen

  

Positive

Negative

Head plus proboscis

Positive

6 (1.3 %)

2 (0.4 %)

 

Negative

15 (3.2 %)

442 (95.1 %)

  1. Note: Data are combined for all three species of tsetse fly. Trypanosoma congolense subspp. refers to both T. congolense subspecies combined