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Caught in a trap: DNA contamination in tsetse xenomonitoring can lead to over-estimates of Trypanosoma brucei infection
Isabel Saldanha, Rachel Sarah Lea, Oliver Manangwa…·Lucas J. Cunningham
This study shows that co-housed infected tsetse flies can contaminate naive flies with T. brucei DNA via faeces, leading to overestimation of infection prevalence in xenomonitoring.