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Bertram, B.C.R.
Sleeping Sickness Survey in the Serengeti Area (Tanzania) 1971
1973 Acta Tropica (30): 37-46
Trypanosoma brucei infection rates in large mammals in the Serengeti National Park are considered in relation to the abundance of these species. On the scanty evidence available, about 7.5% of mammals are infected. It appears that lions and hyaenas, despite high infection rates, are insignificant as potential reservoirs compared with the vastly more abundant, less infected, and less-studied species. the high infection rate in lions is to be expected from a social carnivore. It is unlikely that infection rates are very different from one area of the Park to another. Possible effects of parasite on host, and vice versa, and the barrier to infection in both host mammal and in the Glossina vector are discussed, and the main points requiring further investigation are outlined.
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