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ILRI News on disease control

04 Jul 2019

Millions of small pig farmers in Asia threatened by swine fever outbreak

(This post was written by Thin Lei Win and originally posted on Thomson Reuters in which Thin interviewed Hung Nguyen, ILRI regional representative for East and Southeast Asia) ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Millions of small-scale pig farmers across Asia risk falling into poverty due to the...

ILRI clippings

24 Jan 2019

Susan MacMillan

Scottish gene-edited chickens produced to help stop bird flu

Gallo, 1977, by Aldemir Martins (via Wikiart). ‘Humans don’t usually get the flu directly from animals, but human outbreaks of bird and swine flu can and do happen. In fact, scientists are so concerned that the next great pandemic will arise from a deadly strain of wild bird influenza that they’ve...

ILRI Asia blog

22 Dec 2018

Chi Nguyen

ILRI’s training program on analytical veterinary epidemiology to better control diseases in India

Scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ) and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) have trained more than 20 researchers from ICAR’s institutes, state agricultural universities and state animal husbandry departments on epidemiology concepts, data analysis...

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Publications on disease control

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Simulation of control scenarios of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome in Nghe An Province in Vietnam

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Gene expression profiling of porcine skeletal muscle satellite cells after poly(I:C) stimulation

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Control of Taenia solium: A case for public and private sector investment

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A market scoping study for porcine cysticercosis vaccine calls for a one-health approach to sustain the control of the disease in Uganda

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Molecular detection and phylogenetic analysis of Peste des petits ruminants virus circulating in small ruminants in eastern Amhara region, Ethiopia

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Similar levels of diversity in the gene encoding the p67 sporozoite surface protein of Theileria parva are observed in blood samples from buﬀalo and cattle naturally infected from buﬀalo

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ILRI Projects on disease control

Aug 2011Jul 2014

Accelerating CBPP research towards a better vaccine through application of synthetic biology

Objectives: Our long-term perspective is to apply key synthetic biology technologies to gain knowledge for vaccine development against diverse mycoplasma infections; the current project will show proof of principle. Two approaches will be pursued. 1. We propose to transfer the synthetic biology...

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Feb 2010Jul 2013

Quantifying weather and climate impacts on health in developing countries (QWeCI)

Objectives/Goals Evaluate the use and awareness of predictions and projections of atmospheric variability on timescales of weeks (weather), months to seasons up to decades (climate) for quantification of health impacts in targeted countries Develop methods to tailor, for health impacts, output from weather and climate ensemble forecasts (days, seasons to decades) and scenario driven future climate projections from regional and global climate models

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May 2010Oct 2013

Enhanced control of Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) in sub Saharan Africa through development of better diagnostics and vaccines

Objectives/goals To alleviate negative impacts of CBPP on pastoralist and othe livestock keepers in endemic areas of sub Saharan African countries. Expected outputs Laboratory assay that provides greater sensitivity and specificity than the existing test and that is capable of accurately estimating...