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Findings of a community screening programme for human cystic echinococcosis in a non-endemic area by Mutwiri, Titus, Magambo, J., Zeyhle, E., Muigai, A.W.T., Alumasa, Lorren, Amanya, Fredrick, Fèvre, Eric M., Falzon, Laura C.

“…Eight sentinel sites were purposively selected based on their proximity to slaughterhouses handling animals introduced from pastoralist regions, and necessary permissions to conduct the study were sought. …”
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Towards sustainable watershed-based landscape restoration in degraded drylands: Perceived benefits and innovative pathways learnt from project-based interventions in Ethiopia by Wolka, K., Temesgen, B.B., Getachew, F., Girma, F., Gessesse, G.D.

“…Encroachment of livestock to closed area, shortage of finance, and the growing number of wild animals in closed area were the perceived challenges. …”
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Best Management Practices guidelines for small scale tilapia cage aquaculture in Ghana and Nigeria by KAASAH, Jemimah, Siriwardena, Sunil, Nasr-Allah, Ahmed, Olaniyi, Ajibola

“…The enclosed nature reduces the risk of predation by animals such as birds (fish eagles, cormorants and kingfishers, among others), snakes, monitor lizards and crocodiles. …”
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Formation des équipes pays du projet TARSPro sur l’approche services climatiques participatifs et intégrés pour l’agriculture (PICSA) by Ogou, Anani, Munyangeri, Yvonne Uwase, Mbarushimana Kagabo, Desire, Ouedraogo, Mathieu

“…L’atelier a regroupé au total 19 participants des systèmes nationaux de recherche agricole (SNRA) et des agents des services nationaux de météorologie du Bénin, du Burkina Faso, du Mali, du Niger et du Tchad (cf. liste de présence en annexe 1 du présent rapport). L’atelier a été animé par l’Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT qui appuie le Conseil Ouest et Centre Africain pour la Recherche et le Développement Agricole (CORAF) dans la mise en œuvre du projet TARSPro à travers une assistance technique en vue d’une intégration efficace de l’Agriculture Intelligente face au Climat (AIC) dans la mise en œuvre dudit projet. …”
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Dissemination workshop report on livestock movement routes and resources maps in the southern Oromia and Somali regions, Ethiopia by Berhanu, Dagim

“…With this regard, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in collaboration with other partners, conducted participatory livestock routes and related resources mapping activities in selected pastoral woredas of the Oromia region and Somali region with European Union (EU) funded project, the so called Health of Ethiopian Animals for Rural Development (HEARD). Since December 2019, numerous activities have been conducted to map and validate the status of major routes through which livestock moves to markets, water points, health facilities and other related infrastructure in those regions. …”
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How to achieve a planetary health diet through system and paradigm change? by Kanerva, Minna, Efstathiou, Sophia, Bene, Christophe, Brock, Samara, Clark, Michael

“…Today’s food systems are responsible for an unsustainably large amount of negative impacts, including obesity and under-nutrition, global greenhouse gas emissions, deterioration of natural resources, erosion of biodiversity, and the suffering of billions of livestock animals (Weis, 2013; Gilson and Kenehan, 2018; Swinburn et al., 2019; Almond et al., 2020; Bovenkerk and Keulartz, 2021; IPCC, 2022). …”
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Maize as food and feed in intensive smallholder systems: management options for improved integration in mixed farming systems of east and southern Africa by Romney, Dannie L., Thorne, Peter J., Lukuyu, Ben A., Thornton, Philip K.

“…Genetic enhancement of the digestibility of maize stover was found to have little impact on milk production because diets based on stover were deficient in nitrogen, preventing animals from benefiting from the increased energy supply resulting from digestibility increases. …”
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Characterization of an insect cell-derived Theileria parva sporozoite vaccine antigen and immunogenicity in cattle by Nene, Vishvanath M., Inumaru, S., McKeever, Declan J., Morzaria, S.P., Shaw, M., Musoke, A.J.

“…As seen previously with NS1-p67, all animals developed high levels of anti-p67 antibodies that neutralized sporozoite infectivity in vitro, but antigen-specific T-cell proliferative responses were not detected in peripheral blood. …”
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Peripheral blood leukocyte subpopulation dynamics during Trypanosoma congolense infection in Boran and N'Dama cattle. An analysis using monoclonal antibodies and flow cytometry by Ellis, J.A., Scott, J.R., MacHugh, Niall D., Gettinby, George, Davis, W.C.

“…The BoT4/BoT8 ratios were significantly (P < 0±01) increased in both groups of infected animals at the first peak of parasitaemia. After day 22 in the infected N'Damas and in the Borans which required drug therapy, there was a leucocytotic response characterized by an increase in the total number of B cells, T cells, and null cells. …”
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Drug sensitivity of trypanosome populations from cattle in a peri-urban dairy production system in Uganda by Olila, D., McDermott, John J., Eisler, M.C., Mitema, E.S., Patzelt, R.J., Clausen, Peter-Henning, Poetzsch, C.J., Zessin, K.H., Mehlitz, D., Peregrine, A.S.

“…Eighteen trypanosome isolates collected from cattle during this period were characterised in cattle, goats and mice for their sensitivity to homidium, isometamidium and diminazene; 10 of the isolates were selected randomly, 8 were from animals that had the highest serum isometamidium concentrations at the time the isolates were collected. …”
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Co-evolutionary scenarios of intensification and privatization of resource use in rural communities of south-western Niger by Rovere, R. La, Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y., Keulen, H. van, Schiere, J.B., Szonyi, J.A.

“…Agricultural production in the semi-arid agro-ecosystems of the Sahel centres on cereal staple crops and pastoralism with increasing crop-livestock integration. Animals mobilize soil fertility through manure production, graze crop by-products, and transfer nutrients from distant pastures to cropped areas. …”
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Sensitivity and specificity of antigen-capture ELISAs for diagnosis of Trypanosoma congolense and Trypansoma vivax infections in cattle by Eisler, M.C., Lessard, P., Masake, R.A., Moloo, S.K., Peregrine, A.S.

“…In contrast to the antigen-ELISA, the sensitivity of the buffy-coat technique when applied to the same experimental animals was fairly high at 67% for T. congolense infections and 60 for T. vivax infections. …”
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Seasonal variation of Nitrate-N in groundwater: a case study from Chunnakam aquifer, Jaffna Peninsula [Abstract only] by Arasalingam, Sutharsiny, Manthrithilake, Herath, Pathmarajah, S., Mikunthan, T., Vithanage, Meththika

“…Other sources of nitrate include organic manures, and urine and excreta of animals through human activities. The aim of this study was to assess the N-nitrate contamination in drinking water of the Chunnakam aquifer, which was a sub-objective of a research project carried out by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). …”
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A simplified cost-effective method for area-wide testing of trypanocidal drug sensitivity of T. congolense in mice by Geerts, S., Ndung'u, J.M., Murilla, G., Mbwambo, H., Sinyangwe, L., Machila, N., Delespaux, V., Brandt, J., Peregrine, A.S., McDermott, John J., Holmes, P.H., Eisler, M.C.

“…Classically this involves using multiple drug doses to determine the dose required to cure 50% of animals (CD50), requiring at least 30 mice per drug. …”
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Effect of diet supplementation on the quality of composts made from faeces, urine and feed refusals by Sangare, M., Bationo, B. André, Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y., Fernández Rivera, S., Pandey, V.S.

“…It was concluded that bedding animals on roughage refusals prior to composting them is a low input technology that could enhance nutrient cycling in stall feeding systems.…”
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Exposure of pigs to Trichinella spp. in three districts in Central and Eastern Uganda by Roesel, Kristina, Dione, Michel M., Nöckler, K., Fries, R., Baumann, M.P.O., Clausen, Peter-Henning, Grace, Delia

“…As part of a multi– pathogen assessment we collected pig sera, bio–data of the individual animals, herd composition and husbandry practices at production. …”
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Body weight measurements relationship in Nigerian Red Sokoto goats by Hassan, A., Ciroma, A.

“…Bodyweight was correlated with body length (0.45, 0.53, 0.75), height-at-withers (0.73, 0.47, 0.55) and heart girth (0.78, 0.38, 0.58).Based on the magnitude of the correlation coefficients, body length and height-at-withers could be used for predicting liveweight of the animals at 1-2 years and 3 years and above, respectively.…”
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Enhancing soil organic carbon, particulate organic carbon and microbial biomass in semi-arid rangeland using pasture enclosures by Oduor, C.O., Karanja, N.K., Onwonga, R.N., Mureithi, Stephen M., Pelster, David E., Nyberg, G.

“…Under CGE, a farmer owning few animals leases the enclosure to households with relatively more livestock, while GDE is where the livestock utilizing the enclosure are purely owned by the farmer. …”
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Evidence of exposure to henipaviruses in domestic pigs in Uganda by Atherstone, Christine, Diederich, S., Weingartl, H.M., Fischer, K., Balkema-Buschmann, A., Grace, Delia, Alonso, Silvia, Dhand, N.K., Ward, M.P., Mor, Siobhan M.

“…However, little is known about the potential for spillover into domestic animals in East Africa, particularly pigs, which served as amplifying hosts during the first outbreak of NiV in Malaysia and Singapore. …”
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A comparative pattern of lectin-binding in the endometrial glands of the uterus and placenta of healthy buffaloes and bovines at early gestation by Caspe, Sergio Gaston, Konrad, Jose Luis, Moore, Prando Dadin, Sala, Juan Manuel, Lischinsky, Lilian Haydee, Campero, Carlos Manuel, Barbeito, Claudio Gustavo

“…Tissue samples of placenta and uterus from pregnant Mediterranean female water buffaloes (Buf1) and Angus cows (Bov1) were analyzed. All animals were euthanized at 98 days of gestation. LHC was carried out using twelve lectins (Con A, LCA, PSA, sWGA, PHA-e, SBA, UEA-1, WGA, RCA-1, PNA, DBA, BSA-1). …”
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