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Glossina

 [glŏ-si´nah]
a genus of biting flies, including the tsetse flies, which serve as vectors of trypanosomes causing various forms of trypanosomiasis in humans and other animals.
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Glossina

(glo-sī'nă),
A genus of bloodsucking Diptera (tsetse flies) confined to Africa; they serve as vectors of the pathogenic trypanosomes that cause various forms of African sleeping sickness in humans and in domestic and wild animals.
[G. glōssa, tongue]
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Glos·si·na

(glos-ī'nă)
A genus of bloodsucking Diptera (tsetse flies) confined to Africa; they serve as vectors of the trypanosomes that cause African sleeping sickness.
[G. glōssa, tongue]
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