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ILRI News on ECF

17 Dec 2019

ILRI scientists are applying advanced ‘nanovaccinology’ in development of new vaccines against devastating tropical livestock diseases

Artistic render of a nanoparticle (photo credit: University of California at Berkeley/Mathew Tirrell) Smaller than 100 nanometres in diameter—about 60 times smaller than the width of human hair and comparable in size to microscopic structures within cells—synthetically produced nanoparticles are...

Ekta PatelBioscience Communications Manager

AVCD program blog

30 Sep 2019

Can the private sector deliver livestock vaccines in Kenya? Yes, they can.

A private service provider supported by ILRI AVCD LC, provides high quality veterinary inputs and services closer to the farmers in the ASALs (Photo credit: ILRI/ Haret Hambe). Livestock diseases and vectors are among the top constraints limiting productivity and development of the livestock...

Muthoni NjiruCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

ILVAC - saving livestock with vaccines

07 Dec 2018

Progress in developing next generation vaccines for the control of East Coast fever.

Anna Lacasta 1 , James Nyagwange 1 , Nicholas Svitek 1 , Samuel Oyola 1 , Sonal Henson 1 , Lucilla Steinaa 1 , Vish Nene 1 , Ine de Goeyse 2 , Neena Mitter 3 , Michael Yu 3 , Fred Fellouse 4 , Neil King 5 1 International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), 2 Institute for Tropical Medicine, 3...