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How can we realise the full potential of animal health systems for delivering development and health outcomes?
(Europe PMC, 2021-08-21)Animal health services play an essential role in supporting livestock production, with the potential to address the challenges of hunger, poverty, health, social justice and environmental health as part of the path towards ... -
How dynamics and drivers of land use/land cover change impact elephant conservation and agricultural livelihood development in Rombo, Tanzania.
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2017)Land use/ land cover (LULC) change affects the provision of ecosystem services for humans and habitat for wildlife. Hence, it is crucial to monitor LULC particularly adjacent to protected areas. In this study, we measured ... -
How Information Communication Technology Can Enhance Evidence-Based Decisions and Farm-to-Fork Animal Traceability for Livestock Farmers
(Hindawi, 2020-12-17)Due to changes in the livestock sector and the rise of consumer demand for comprehensive and integrated food security and safety, there has been a concern on the use of farm data in enhancing animal traceability and ... -
How public health crises expose systemic, day-to-day health inequalities in low- and-middle income countries: an example from East Africa
(Springer Nature, 2022-02-14)Background: The current Coronavirus disease pandemic reveals political and structural inequities of the world’s poorest people who have little or no access to health care and yet the largest burdens of poor health. This ... -
Human activities affecting lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor) habitat in Momella lakes, Tanzania
(Taylor & Francis, 2024-05-01)Land use/land cover (LULC) change, caused by human activities, can strongly affect wildlife species and their habitats. Yet, human impacts onto lakes and associated indicator bird species such as the lesser flamingos ... -
Human food safety and environmental hazards associated with the use of methyltestosterone and other steroids in production of all-male tilapia
(Springer, 2015-04)In recent years, all-male cultures of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) have been the most preferred mode of production in aquaculture industry. All-male individuals achieve higher somatic growth rate and shut high ... -
Human population growth as indicator for human-elephant conflicts in Rombo area, Tanzania
(Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences (JBES), 2017-04-17)Conservationists need detailed information on human population growth and distribution in areas adjacent to protected areas. This information can help determine land use/land cover changes (LULCC), which affect the quality ... -
Hydrogeochemical Analysis of Water Quality Dynamics Under Anthropic Activities on the Southern Slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
(Springer Nature, 2022-07-14)Water quality management requires consideration of surface water and groundwater dynamics. This study utilizes hydrogeochemical and isotopic techniques to understand anthropic influences on surface and groundwater resources ... -
Identification and Management Challenges Associated with Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith), Causal Agent of Bacterial Wilt Disease of Tomato in Sub-Saharan Africa.
(Science Alert, 2017)Tomato is the world's most consumed vegetable crop after potato and it is source of vitamins, minerals, fiber, lycopene, β-carotene and income. Despite its significant importance tomato can heavily be attacked by different ... -
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 ... -
Identifying Age Cohorts Responsible for Peste Des Petits Ruminants Virus Transmission among Sheep, Goats, and Cattle in Northern Tanzania.
(MDPI, 2020-02-07)Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) causes a contagious disease of high morbidity and mortality in global sheep and goat populations. To better control this disease and inform eradication strategies, an improved ... -
Identifying the right plants for diverse biocontrol agents in tropical smallholder bean farming systems
(African Journals OnLine (AJOL), 2022-10-20)Biocontrol agents such as predators, parasitoids and pathogens potentially regulate crop pests populations. The agents feed directly on the pests, oviposit in the pest body or cause disease in the pest. While biocontrol ... -
Illegal harvesting threatens fruit production and seedling recruitment of Balanites aegyptiaca in Dinder Biosphere Reserve, Sudan
(Elsevier, 2021-09)Illegal harvesting negatively affects the forest tree populations, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, but little is known how fruit production and seedling recruitment are impacted. We assessed recruitment parameters of ... -
iMAP: an integrated bioinformatics and visualization pipeline for microbiome data analysis
(BioMed Central, 2019-07-03)One of the major challenges facing investigators in the microbiome field is turning large numbers of reads generated by next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms into biological knowledge. Effective analytical workflows ... -
iMAP: an integrated bioinformatics and visualization pipeline for microbiome data analysis
(BMC Bioinformatics, 2019)Background: One of the major challenges facing investigators in the microbiome field is turning large numbers of reads generated by next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms into biological knowledge. Effective analytical ... -
Immune response following Newcastle disease immunization and growth performance of kuroiler, broiler and local Tanzanian chickens
(Academic Journals, 2020-01-31)Chicken is a major livestock species raised by smallholder households in rural areas in developing countries of Sub-Saharan Africa as a chief source of meat protein and income generation. However, Newcastle disease largely ... -
Immunochromatographic thread-based test platform for diagnosis of infectious diseases
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2018-03-31)Patterning is an important step in fabrication of multiplexed microfluidic devices. Various approaches including cutting, photolithography, wax-printing, plotting and etching have been developed and tested. Recently, using ... -
Impact of early diagnosis of impaired glucose regulation in tuberculosis: Comparison of clinical outcomes in people with tuberculosis in Tanzania
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022-08-04)Objective Diabetes mellitus (DM) has been known to compromise tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes. Association data are limited for early hyperglycaemia detection and TB treatment outcomes. Thus, we assessed treatment ... -
Impact of invasive alien plants Gutenbergia cordifolia and Tagetes minuta on native taxa in the Ngorongoro crater, Tanzania
(Elsevier, 2021-09)Understanding the ecological impacts of invasive plant species on the native communities and identifying native plant species that co-exist with invasive plants are important for planning the effective control and restoration ... -
The impact of malignant catarrhal fever virus challenge on physiological stress in cattle
(American Journal of Research Communication, 2014)There is a lot of information in literature on animals succumbing to disease(s) after exposure to stressors. But little information is available on what happens to corticosterone hormones when animals are exposed to a ...