trypanosomiasis

ILRI News on trypanosomiasis

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

01 Sep 2020

Improving animal health in southern Africa—Why it matters and what to do

Cattle being herded towards green pasture on the flood plain in western Zambia (photo credit: WorldFish/Felix Clay/Duckrabbit). In a new book chapter (Ch. 15, Technologies for agricultural transformation: Animal health ), Delia Grace , a veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert at the...

Susan MacMillanTeam leader, Communications, awareness and advocacy

ILRI clippings

15 Jun 2020

Scientists stress need, amid COVID-19, to maintain focus on everyday zoonotic diseases of the world’s poor

James Akoko, ILRI Animal Health Assistant with the People, Animals and their Zoonoses (PAZ) project, making blood smears (photo credit: BMGF/Lee Klejtnot). Most diseases that transmit from animals to humans (zoonoses) are not of the headline-grabbing, world-stopping variety write Eric Fèvre and...

Susan MacMillanTeam leader, Communications, awareness and advocacy

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Publications on trypanosomiasis

Journal Article

Published2020

Variant antigen diversity in Trypanosoma vivax is not driven by recombination

Journal Article

Published2020

Spatial distribution of trypanosomes in cattle from western Kenya

Journal Article

Published2020

Prevalence of trypanosomes associated with drug resistance in Shimba Hills, Kwale County, Kenya

Journal Article

Published2019

Identification of candidate signature genes and key regulators associated with Trypanotolerance in the Sheko Breed

Journal Article

Published2019

Genome sequence analysis reveals selection signatures in endangered trypanotolerant West African Muturu cattle

Poster

Published2018

Eradication of human African trypanosomiasis? Don't forget the pigs!

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ILRI Projects on trypanosomiasis

Jan 2013

Mzima livestock project

Trypanosomiasis is one of the most significant constraints to cattle production in Africa, directly affecting livestock productivity (meat and milk production) and indirectly lowering general farm productivity as cattle can play a crucial role as beasts of burden. A study mapping the benefits of...