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In Latin America Trypanosoma vivax and T. evansi are widespread and important pathogens of cattle, horses and other livestock, and are mechanically transmitted by bloodsucking flies such as tabanids. Information on the epidemiology and control of these livestock trypanosomoses is scarce and thus an authoritative account is most welcome. In this review, Marc Desquesnes has drawn on his extensive practical experience of these veterinary pathogens in Latin America (French Guiana), illuminated with insights from his parallel work on the tsetse-transmitted species in West Africa. The six chapters deal...