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“He Who Relies on His Brother's Property Dies Poor”: The Complex Narratives of Livestock Care in Northern Tanzania
(Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021-11-03)
Background: Endemic zoonoses have important impacts for livestock-dependent households in East Africa. In these communities, people's health and livelihoods are severely affected by livestock disease losses. Understanding ...
Local and wide-scale livestock movement networks inform disease control strategies in East Africa
(Springer Nature Limited, 2023-06-14)
Livestock mobility exacerbates infectious disease risks across sub-Saharan Africa, but enables critical access to grazing and water resources, and trade. Identifying locations of high livestock traffic offers opportunities ...
Livestock movement informs the risk of disease spread in traditional production systems in East Africa
(Springer Nature Limited, 2021-08-12)
In Africa, livestock are important to local and national economies, but their productivity is constrained by infectious diseases. Comprehensive information on livestock movements and contacts is required to devise appropriate ...
The Prevalence and Determinants of Taenia multiceps Infection (Cerebral Coenurosis) in Small Ruminants in Africa: A Systematic Review
(MDPI, 2022-06-10)
Cerebral coenurosis is a fatal parasitic neurological disease affecting the brain and spinal cord of goats and sheep. Despite the large population of sheep and goats in Africa, there is very little awareness about the scale ...
Prevalence of Campylobacter and Salmonella in African food animals and meat: A systematic review and meta-analysis
(Elsevier, 2019-10-31)
Background: Campylobacter and Salmonella, particularly non-typhoidal Salmonella, are important bacterial en-
teric pathogens of humans which are often carried asymptomatically in animal reservoirs. Bacterial foodborne
...
Prospective cohort study reveals unexpected aetiologies of livestock abortion in northern Tanzania
(Springer Nature Limited, 2022-07-08)
Livestock abortion is an important cause of productivity losses worldwide and many infectious causes of abortion are zoonotic pathogens that impact on human health. Little is known about the relative importance of infectious ...
Identification of Bacillus anthracis, Brucella spp., and Coxiella burnetii DNA signatures from bushmeat
(Springer Nature Limited, 2021-07-21)
Meat from wildlife species (bushmeat) represents a major source of dietary protein in low- and middle-income countries where humans and wildlife live in close proximity. Despite the occurrence of zoonotic pathogens in ...
Current Trend and Future Perspectives of Paratuberculosis in Tanzania
(Journal of Advanced Veterinary Research, 2022-06-27)
Paratuberculosis prevalence, economic and public health significance in animal populations is well docu-
mented in most of the developed countries. In African countries however, information on paratuberculosis
is sparse ...
Shauri et al. BMC Infect Dis (2021) 21:911 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06549-y RESEARCH Seroprevalence of Dengue and Chikungunya antibodies among blood donors in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar, Tanzania: a cross-sectional study
(BMC Infectious Medical, 2021-09-06)
Background: The potential shift of major causes of febrile illnesses from malaria to non-malarial febrile illnesses,
including arboviral diseases such as chikungunya and dengue, is of concern. The last outbreaks of these ...
Innate Immune Genes Associated With Newcastle Disease Virus Load in Chick Embryos From Inbred and Outbred Lines
(Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019-06-20)
Newcastle disease virus (NDV) causes substantial economic losses to smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries with high levels of morbidity and mortality in poultry flocks. Previous investigations have suggested ...