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ILRI News on disease control

20 Oct 2020

Excursions of a biochemical kind: ILRI hosts CUNY–Regeneron ‘power couple’ working to improve the health of African cattle and COVID-19 patients

ILRI’s cloned Boran bull named ‘Tumaini’ (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan) Written by Susan MacMillan & Ekta Patel Part 1 For two months at the start of this year, Jayne Raper, a professor of biological sciences at the City University of New York’s Hunter College (CUNY), in Manhattan, took a...

ILRI News

14 Oct 2020

Training researchers virtually when supplies can cross borders but people cannot

Written by Zoë Campbell Contents of the peste des petits ruminants virus antigen rapid test kit [ID Rapid® PPR Antigen, IDVet, France] (photo credit: ILRI/Bryony Anne Jones). In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, supplies can cross international borders, but the same is not always true for...

Paul KaraimuCommunications Officer

AgHealth blog

29 Sep 2020

Nomadic pastoralist communities: An invisible frontier in health surveillance

The effects of COVID-19 have gone undocumented in nomadic pastoralist communities across Africa, which are largely invisible to health surveillance systems despite their significance in the setting of emerging infectious disease. A new research paper in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and...

Tezira LoreCommunication Specialist

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Publications on disease control

Poster

Published2020

Accelerating African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) vaccine development via CRISPR-Cas9 and synthetic biology technologies

Poster

Published2020

ILRI Projects on disease control

Jan 2020Dec 2023

Livestock Production Systems in Zimbabwe (LIPS-Zim)

Livestock provides income and employment to farmers, agricultural service providers and others involved in the value chain. Zimbabwe’s livestock production system is characterized by small-scale subsistence farming. Despite the importance of livestock to rural livelihoods, productivity remains low...

Jun 2019May 2022

Epidemiology and control of peste des petits ruminants in East and West Africa

The global strategy for the control and eradication of peste des petits ruminants has been endorsed by more than 200 countries with the vision of a world free of the disease by 2030. This project supports ongoing global control and eradication efforts led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of...

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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Tags: disease control

ILRI News on disease control

Excursions of a biochemical kind: ILRI hosts CUNY–Regeneron ‘power couple’ working to improve the health of African cattle and COVID-19 patients

Training researchers virtually when supplies can cross borders but people cannot

Nomadic pastoralist communities: An invisible frontier in health surveillance

Publications on disease control

Accelerating African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) vaccine development via CRISPR-Cas9 and synthetic biology technologies

Diagnostics to reduce antimicrobial (mis)use

Impact of respiratory diseases on weight gain in Uganda pigs

Bacteriophages a viable alternative to antibiotic use in poultry farming

Poultry diseases control and prevention challenges in Ethiopia

Nanoparticle platform to fight old foes. T. parva p67C antigen as a model

ILRI Projects on disease control

Livestock Production Systems in Zimbabwe (LIPS-Zim)

Epidemiology and control of peste des petits ruminants in East and West Africa

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