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Modelling the probability of a single trypanosome infecting a tsetse fly
1Centre for OR and Applied Statistics, University of Salford, U.K.
Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology
|August 1, 1991
Abstract:
A simple model is fitted to recent data on tsetse infection rates to estimate the probability of a single trypanosome infecting a tsetse fly. The model is extended to accommodate a possible clumping of trypanosomes in host blood.