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Occurrence and Public Health Implications of Brucella Abortus and Antimicrobial Residues in Raw Cow Milk in Bukombe District, Tanzania. [PDF]

Vet Med Sci
Poor husbandry practices in Bukombe District accelerate diseases in livestock and indiscriminate uses of antimicrobials. Cow abortions, raw cow placenta and aborted fetuses feeding dogs, communal grazing and watering and introduction of new animals predict brucellosis in the herd.
Mhozya M, Julius K M, Nonga HE.
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Are there gender differences in access to and demand for East Coast fever vaccine? Empirical evidence from rural smallholder dairy farmers in Kenya

Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2020
Women lag in the adoption of agricultural innovations compared to men, mainly due to gender inequalities in access to complementary inputs, capital, and knowledge/information.
Humphrey Jumba, Henry Kiara, George Owuor, Nils Teufel   +3 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 ...
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Flow Cytometric Analysis of the Cytotoxic T-Cell Recall Response to Theileria parva in Cattle Following Vaccination by the Infection and Treatment Method

Veterinary Sciences, 2021
The apicomplexan hemoparasite, Theileria parva, causes East Coast fever (ECF), a frequently fatal disease of African cattle. Vaccine development has been impeded by incomplete understanding of protective immunity following natural exposure or the ...
Mahmoud M. Elnaggar, Donald P. Knowles, William C. Davis, Lindsay M. Fry   +3 more
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In silico identification of Theileria parva surface proteins

The Cell Surface, 2022
East Coast Fever is a devastating African cattle disease caused by the apicomplexan parasite, Theileria parva. Little is known about the cell surface, and few proteins have been identified.
Nitisha Gurav, Olivia J.S. Macleod, Paula MacGregor, R. Ellen R. Nisbet   +3 more
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Exploring knowledge and management practices on ticks and tick-borne diseases among agro-pastoral communities in Southern Highlands, Tanzania [PDF]

Veterinary World, 2018
Aim: The current study was conducted to assess the farmers' knowledge and management practices on ticks and tick-borne diseases (TBDs) through individual interview using a structured questionnaire in Mbarali and Momba districts of Mbeya region ...
Isack Ibrahim Kerario, Martin Simuunza, Emmanuel L. K. Laisser, Sebastian Chenyambuga   +3 more
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Clinical Evaluation of Corridor Disease in Bos indicus (Boran) Cattle Naturally Infected With Buffalo-Derived Theileria parva

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021
Corridor disease (CD) is a fatal condition of cattle caused by buffalo-derived Theileria parva. Unlike the related condition, East Coast fever, which results from infection with cattle-derived T. parva, CD has not been extensively studied. We describe in
Elizabeth A. J. Cook, Elizabeth A. J. Cook, Tatjana Sitt, E. Jane Poole, Gideon Ndambuki, Stephen Mwaura, Maurine C. Chepkwony, Maurine C. Chepkwony, Perle Latre de Late, Perle Latre de Late, Antoinette A. Miyunga, Richard van Aardt, Giles Prettejohn, David Wragg, David Wragg, James G. D. Prendergast, James G. D. Prendergast, W. Ivan Morrison, Philip Toye, Philip Toye   +19 more
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Development of a Potential Yeast-Based Vaccine Platform for Theileria parva Infection in Cattle

Frontiers in Immunology, 2021
East Coast Fever (ECF), caused by the tick-borne apicomplexan parasite Theileria parva, remains one of the most important livestock diseases in sub-Saharan Africa with more than 1 million cattle dying from infection every year.
Shan Goh, Jeannine Kolakowski, Angela Holder, Mark Pfuhl, Daniel Ngugi, Keith Ballingall, Kata Tombacz, Dirk Werling   +7 more
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Isolement de Theileria parva (SAO Hill) et Theileria parva (West Kilimanjaro) et leur immunité croisée avec Theileria parva (Kasoba)

Revue d’Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, 1994
Deux souches de Theileria parva ont été isolées sur du bétail-témoin pendant des essais d'immunisation sur le terrain contre la theilériose à SAO Hill et West Kilimanjaro, dans les parties Sud et Nord de la Tanzanie respectivement.
F.L. Musisi, P. Jacobsen, J.C. Quiroga, L.M. Njuguna   +3 more
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Evidence for conservation in antigen gene sequences combined with extensive polymorphism at VNTR loci [PDF]

, 2020
Theileria parva is a tick‐transmitted apicomplexan protozoan parasite that infects lymphocytes of cattle and African Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer), causing a frequently fatal disease of cattle in eastern, central and southern Africa.
Ahmed, Jabbar, Bishop, Richard P., Clausen, Peter‐Henning, Kabi, Fredrick, Kasaija, Paul, Lubega, George W., Mwega, Elisa, Nanteza, Anne, Njahira, Moses, Njuguna, Joyce, Obara, Isaiah, Odongo, David, Salih, Diaeldin A., Skilton, Rob A.   +13 more
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