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Preliminary report on the tsetse fly disease or nagana, in Zululand.

Publication Details

Durban, South Africa: Bennett & Davis, 1895 CE.

In 1895 Bruce found that nagana, the tsetse fly disease of Zululand, was due to a trypanosome (T. brucei). He described a hematozoon in the blood of the affected animals that had not been previously described.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#5273
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/8580
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLpreliminary-report-on-the-tsetse-fly-disease-or-nagana-in-zululand

Geographic Context

Publication place: Durban, South Africa