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Trypanosoma brucei
Spread by bite of tsetse fly (
Glossinia species
)
Both males and female flies carry and spread disease
Fly feeds during the day
Only small percentage of flies infected
Two subspecies: morphologically indistinguishable
T. brucei gambiense
Found in West and Central Africa
Causes most cases
Tsetse fly lives along streams in vegetation and forested areas
T. brucei rhodesiense
Found is East and Southeast Africa
More limited foci
Tsetse flies found in savannahs that dot the Serengeti
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