Economics of East Coast fever: a literature review [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 East Coast fever (ECF) is a cattle disease caused by a protozoan parasite called Theileria parva (T. parva). Theileria parva is transmitted among cattle by ticks.
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Farm and Livelihood Characteristics After ITM Vaccination Against East Coast Fever in Tanzania [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 East Coast Fever is a critical cattle disease in East and Southern Africa which is currently mainly controlled through frequent chemical removal of ticks, the disease vector.
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Development of a dual vaccine against East Coast fever and lumpy skin disease [PDF]
Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 East Coast fever is an acute bovine disease caused by the apicomplexan parasite Theileria parva and is regarded as one of the most important tick-vectored diseases in Africa. The current vaccination procedure has many drawbacks, as it involves the use of
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Safety and Efficacy of the East Coast Fever Muguga Cocktail Vaccine: A Systematic Review [PDF]
Vaccines, 2021 Immunisation of livestock with high quality vaccines is considered an essential approach to controlling many animal diseases. The only currently available commercial vaccine to protect cattle from East Coast fever (ECF), a tick-borne disease caused by ...
Fiona K. Allan, Andrew R. Peters
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Design and immunological evaluation of two-component protein nanoparticle vaccines for East Coast fever [PDF]
Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 Nanoparticle vaccines usually prime stronger immune responses than soluble antigens. Within this class of subunit vaccines, the recent development of computationally designed self-assembling two-component protein nanoparticle scaffolds provides a ...
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Explanatory models and animal health-seeking behavior for East Coast fever in rural Kenya: an ethnographic study [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceIntroductionExplanatory models of disease focus on individuals’ and groups’ understandings of diseases, revealing a disconnect between livestock keepers and animal health providers.
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Design and evaluation of vaccines for the control of the etiological agent of East Coast fever [PDF]
Parasites & VectorsEast Coast fever is a tick-borne theileriosis caused by Theileria parva, a protozoan parasite with the primary vector being the tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus. This disease poses significant challenges in sub-Saharan Africa, leading to severe economic
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Beyond the jab: Unravelling the complexities of vaccine adoption for East Coast Fever in rural Kenya. [PDF]
PLoS ONEEast Coast Fever (ECF) is one of the leading causes of livestock mortality and reduced productivity across Eastern Africa, and while a live vaccine against it known as the Infection and Treatment Method has existed for three decades now, its adoption by ...
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Leveraging the Medicines for Malaria Venture malaria and pathogen boxes to discover chemical inhibitors of East Coast fever [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance, 2019 Chemotherapy of East Coast fever, a lymphoproliferative cancer-like disease of cattle causing significant economic losses in Africa, is largely dependent on the use of buparvaquone, a drug that was developed in the late 1980's.
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TpUB05, a Homologue of the Immunodominant Plasmodium falciparum Protein UB05, Is a Marker of Protective Immune Responses in Cattle Experimentally Vaccinated against East Coast Fever. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 IntroductionEast Coast fever, a devastating disease of cattle, can be controlled partially by vaccination with live T. parva sporozoites. The antigens responsible for conferring immunity are not fully characterized.
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