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Rural Capitalists and Development in Colonial Africa: A Comparative Analysis

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the emergence and role of rural capitalists in colonial Sub‐Saharan Africa by comparing three peasant‐based economies: Bechuanaland, the Gold Coast and Tanganyika. Using social tables, we estimate the population and income shares of better earning agricultural producers and assess their impact on rural inequality and ...
Prince Young Aboagye, Ellen Hillbom, Sascha Klocke   +2 more
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Evaluation of effectiveness and safety of Subolesin anti-tick vaccine in Ugandan multi-site field trial

npj Vaccines
Vaccines are the most effective and sustainable intervention to control ticks and tick-borne diseases (TBD). Using a personalized vaccine design based on regional tick genotypes, a Rhipicephalus appendiculatus Subolesin protective antigen was used in a ...
Fredrick Kabi, Marinela Contreras, Jimmy Semakula, Marta Sánchez-Sánchez, Clara Muñoz-Hernández, Swidiq Mugerwa, Paul Kasaija, Halid Kirunda, Gabriela de la Fuente, Rubén Fernández-Melgar, Marta Rafael, Isabel G. Fernández de Mera, Moses Matovu, Ivan Kyakuwa, Moses Dhikusooka, Godfrey Nsereko, Paul Boma, James Bugeza, Mwesigwa Moses, Agnes Namukasa, Philip Obonyo, Nicholas Ssekabunga, Okeny E. Adyero, Justus Rutaisire, Christian Gortazar, José de la Fuente   +25 more
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Incorporating the Competencies of Evidence‐Based Veterinary Medicine Focused on Pharmacotherapeutics Into Clinical Rotations for Small Animal Dermatology and Food Animal Medicine and Surgery at a Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital in the US

Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building the skills and knowledge necessary to practice evidence‐based veterinary medicine (EBVM) should occur throughout the veterinary curriculum. Operationalizing EBVM includes asking a clinical question in PICO format, searching the biomedical literature for evidence, critically appraising the evidence, and applying the evidence to make a ...
Virginia R. Fajt, Adam P. Patterson, Dusty Nagy, Jennifer Schleining, Kevin Washburn   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plasma Pharmacokinetic Profile of Fipronil 1% Pour‐On in Cattle: Photodegradation and the Sustained Systemic Persistence of Fipronil Sulfone

Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study characterized the long‐term pharmacokinetic profile of a 1% fipronil pour‐on formulation in Nellore bulls under field conditions. Seventeen animals received a single topical dose (1 mg/kg), and plasma concentrations of fipronil and its metabolites (sulfone and desulfinyl) were monitored for 175 days using LC–MS/MS.
Stefani Maria Ferreira, Leonila Ester Reinert Raspantini, Giselle Kindlein, Fabiano Barreto, Caroline Andrade Tomaszewski, Tamara dos Santos Castilhos, Daniel Rodrigo Hillesheim, Silvana Lima Górniak, André Tadeu Gotardo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Invasive potential of cattle fever ticks in the southern United States

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
' Background For >100 years cattle production in the southern United States has been threatened by cattle fever. It is caused by an invasive parasite-vector complex that includes the protozoan hemoparasites Babesia bovis and B.
John R Giles, A Townsend Peterson, Joseph D Busch, Pia U Olafson, Glen A Scoles, Ronald B Davey, J Mathews Pound, Diane M Kammlah, Kimberly H Lohmeyer, David M Wagner   +9 more
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Variations in Ixodes ricinus Density and Borrelia Infections Associated with Cattle Introduced into a Woodland in The Netherlands

, 2008
The effect of introduced large herbivores on the abundance of Ixodes ricinus ticks and their Borrelia infections was studied in a natural woodland in The Netherlands. Oak and pine plots, either ungrazed or grazed by cattle, were selected.
van Wieren, S.E., Verbaarschot, P.G.H., Smallegange, R.C., Gassner, F., Spitzen, J., Wieren, S.E., van, Takken, W.   +6 more
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Contextual Learning of New Meanings for Familiar Words: Perturbation of Original Meanings Occurs Without Deliberate Study

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract The present study investigated learning new meanings of known words from reading, following Hulme et al.’s (2018) study. English speakers read four short stories containing 16 critical words (i.e., familiar word forms assigned invented secondary meanings).
Nurul Aini Mohd Jelani, Irina Elgort
wiley   +1 more source

Growth of Cowdria ruminantium, the causative agent of heartwater, in a tick cell line

, 2000
The tick-borne rickettsia Cowdria ruminantium has been propagated continuously for over 500 days in the Ixodes scapularis tick cell line IDE8 by using the Gardel isolate from bovine endothelial cells as an inoculum.
Sumption, Keith J, Bell-Sakyi, Lesley, Paxton, Edith, Munderloh, Ulrike G   +3 more
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Zoonotic anxieties: The cultural politics of Nepal's quest for pandemic preparedness

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on fieldwork conducted in Nepal (2022–2024) and by paying attention to how local and transnational notions of epidemiological risk are deployed, this ethnography introduces the concept of “zoonotic anxieties” to make sense of the multi‐species relational ethos that contemporary global health regimes propose.
Max D. López Toledano, Hari Basnet, Anna Durrance‐Bagale, Natasha Howard   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conspecific cueing or cooperative feeding?—Foraging stable flies are visually attracted to conspecific flies

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
In two‐choice laboratory bioassays, food‐deprived and CO2‐stimulated stable flies were offered paired landing platforms that were baited or not (control) with conspecific flies. The presence of conspecifics prompted the attraction and landing of foraging stable flies.
Emmanuel Hung, Justin Wong, Augustus Negraeff, Anya Gould, Gerhard Gries   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source