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ILRI News on ECF

07 May 2021

Assessing the role of cooperatives in promoting adoption of livestock vaccines in Kenya

Researchers in the Policies Institutions and Livelihoods (PIL) program of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) have had to adopt new ways of conducting surveys in a bid to comply with the COVID-19 pandemic-related travel restrictions in Kenya. Julius Githinji, a research associate...

Judy KimaniCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

ILRI News

18 Sep 2020

USAID-funded Regional Feed the Future Animal Health Innovation Lab to be based in Nairobi, Kenya

Livestock moving back to the villages during a storm, Oromia, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/ Camille Hanotte) . A five-year, USD6 million grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) , with an opportunity to grow to $16 million, will develop a regional Feed the Future...

Ekta PatelScientist & Communications Manager - Biosciences

ILRI clippings

11 Sep 2020

Ivan Morrison, of the University of Edinburgh, formerly of ILRAD, awarded the inaugural Plowright Prize for his lifelong research towards a vaccine for East Coast fever

RCVS Knowledge, the charity partner of the UK’s Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, has awarded its inaugural Plowright Prize to Professor William Ivan Morrison of the University of Edinburgh for his research combating the cattle disease East Coast fever. Ivan Morrison started his career at the...

Susan MacMillanILRI Emeritus Fellow

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Publications on ECF

Report

Published2020

Registration of the East Coast Fever infection and treatment method vaccine (Muguga cocktail) in East Africa

Book Chapter

Published2020

The management and economics of East Coast fever

Poster

Published2020

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

Journal Article

Published2020

Multilocus genotyping of Theileria parva isolates associated with a live vaccination trial in Kenya provides evidence for transmission of immunizing parasites into local tick and cattle populations

Journal Article

Published2020

Reflections on IDEAL: What we have learnt from a unique calf cohort study

Journal Article

Published2020

Theileria parasites subvert E2F signaling to stimulate leukocyte proliferation

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ILRI Projects on ECF

Aug 2020Aug 2025

Feed the Future Animal Health Innovation Lab

The Feed the Future Animal Health Innovation Lab will develop local capacity in Kenya to carry out laboratory-based animal health research to improve East Coast fever vaccines and diagnostics and conduct social and economic evaluations of the effects of animal health interventions on human...