Flobert Njiokou | Author | SciTechnol | Journal of Immunological

Flobert Njiokou Author

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Subjects of specialization
Human african trypanosomiasis; Bacteriome; Trypanosome; Tsetse flies; Interactions

Affiliation
Faculty of Science, University of Yaound

Biography

Dr. Flobert Njiokou was an Assistant Professor of Faculty of Science, the University of Yaoundé I, BP 812, Yaoundé, Cameroon and he started working on The Tsetse Flies Intestinal Microflora: A Review

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The Tsetse Fliesï¿½ Intestinal Microflora: A Review

Author(s):

Anne Geiger, Marie-Laure Fardeau, Flobert Njiokou and Bernard Ollivier

The Tsetse Flies’ Intestinal Microflora: A Review

Human African Trypanosomiasis is caused by trypanosomes transmitted to humans by the tsetse fly, in which they accomplish their development into their infective metacyclic form. The crucial step in trypanosome survival occurs when it invades the fly midgut where the parasite may be confronted with other bacterial gut inhabitants. The resulting interactions between the bacterial communities and the trypanosome, ingested by the fly taking a blood meal on a trypanosomeinfected host, may determine the evolvement either toward parasite establishment and the initiation of the biological cycle or its elimination. This altern... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2329-9541.1000124

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