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Combining Landscape Genomics and Ecological Modelling to Investigate Local Adaptation of Indigenous Ugandan Cattle to East Coast Fever [PDF]

Frontiers in Genetics, 2018
East Coast fever (ECF) is a fatal sickness affecting cattle populations of eastern, central, and southern Africa. The disease is transmitted by the tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, and caused by the protozoan Theileria parva parva, which invades host ...
Elia Vajana, Elia Vajana, Mario Barbato, Licia Colli, Marco Milanesi, Marco Milanesi, Marco Milanesi, Estelle Rochat, Enrico Fabrizi, Christopher Mukasa, Marcello Del Corvo, Charles Masembe, Vincent B. Muwanika, Fredrick Kabi, Tad Stewart Sonstegard, Heather Jay Huson, Riccardo Negrini, Riccardo Negrini, The NextGen Consortium, Stéphane Joost, Paolo Ajmone-Marsan   +20 more
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An Improved Theileria parva Sporozoite Seroneutralization Assay for the Identification of East Coast Fever Immune Correlates [PDF]

Antibodies
Background: Immune correlates of protection are ideal tools to predict treatment or vaccine efficacy. However, the accuracy of the immune correlate and the capability to robustly predict the outcome of a vaccine candidate are determined by the ...
Hannah Chege, Samuel Githigia, James Gathumbi, Naomi Chege, Rose Ojuok, Josiah Odaba, Stephen Mwalimu, Harriet Oboge, Lucilla Steinaa, Vishvanath Nene, Anna Lacasta   +10 more
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Unveiling the tick-borne pathogens from domestic ruminant ticks in Malawi and the emergence of the brown ear tick in the southern region: implications for East Coast fever control [PDF]

Parasite
Ticks transmit a wide range of protozoan, bacterial, and viral pathogens to humans and animals globally. However, data on ticks infesting domestic ruminants and the pathogens they carry are scarce in Malawi.
Chikufenji Boniface, Mohanta Uday Kumar, Chatanga Elisha, Stopher Dallion, Ceylan Onur, Umemiya-Shirafuji Rika, Thekisoe Oriel, Nkhata Madalitso, Sugi Tatsuki, Yamagishi Junya, Xuan Xuenan, Hayashida Kyoko   +11 more
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Dogmas and misunderstandings in East Coast fever [PDF]

Tropical Medicine and International Health, 1999
Summary East Coast fever (ECF) is the most important tick‐borne disease in eastern, central and southern Africa and caused an estimated loss of US $186 million in 1989 in the 11 countries where it occurs. It was brought to southern Africa with cattle from Tanzania in 1901 and, over the next 3 years, devastated the cattle that had survived the ...
T T Dolan
exaly   +3 more sources

Epidemiology of East Coast fever (Theileria parva infection) in Kenya: past, present and the future [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors, 2012
In this article, we review the epidemiology of East Coast fever (ECF), a tick-borne infection of cattle, in Kenya. The major factors associated with epidemiology of ECF include the agro-ecological zone (AEZ), livestock production system (LPS) and both ...
Gachohi John, Skilton Rob, Hansen Frank, Ngumi Priscilla, Kitala Philip   +4 more
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Prevalence and spatial distribution of Theileria parva in cattle under crop-livestock farming systems in Tororo District, Eastern Uganda [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Background Tick-borne diseases (TBDs) present a major economic burden to communities across East Africa. Farmers in East Africa must use acaracides to target ticks and prevent transmission of tick-borne diseases such as anaplasmosis, babesiosis ...
Dennis Muhanguzi, Kim Picozzi, Jan Hatendorf, Michael Thrusfield, Susan Christina Welburn, John David Kabasa, Charles Waiswa   +6 more
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The control of East Coast fever of cattle by live parasite vaccination: A science-to-impact narrative [PDF]

One Health, 2016
There is an increasing interest in determining the impact of vaccine technologies developed using public funding targeted at international development, and understanding the factors and ingredients which contribute to the success and impacts of such ...
B.D. Perry
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Pecuária e saúde veterinária no sul de Moçambique no começo do século XX: um olhar a partir do combate à East Coast fever [PDF]

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2021
Resumo O artigo propõe um contributo para a historiografia sobre as dimensões sociais da saúde veterinária em contexto colonial e seus efeitos na pecuária a partir do caso do sul de Moçambique, região onde o gado bovino ocupou historicamente um papel ...
Bárbara Direito
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Infection and treatment method (ITM) vaccine against East Coast fever: reducing the number of doses per straw for use in smallholder dairy herds by thawing, diluting and refreezing already packaged vaccine [PDF]

BMC Veterinary Research, 2019
Background The Infection and Treatment Method (ITM) of vaccination is the only immunization procedure currently available to protect cattle against East Coast fever (ECF), a tick-transmitted disease responsible for losses of several hundreds of millions ...
Ekta Patel, Stephen Mwaura, Giuseppe Di Giulio, Elizabeth A. J. Cook, Godelieve Lynen, Philip Toye   +5 more
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Rhipicephalus appendiculatus ticks transmit Theileria parva from persistently infected cattle in the absence of detectable parasitemia: implications for East Coast fever epidemiology [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors, 2018
Background East Coast fever (ECF) is a devastating disease of cattle and a significant constraint to improvement of livestock production in sub-Saharan Africa.
Cassandra L. Olds, Kathleen L. Mason, Glen A. Scoles   +2 more
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