Endemic stability for Theileria parva infections in Ankole calves of the Ankole ranching scheme, Uganda.

Disease surveillance in mixed livestock and game areas around Lake Mburo National Park in Uganda

Lake Mburo National Park is surrounded by cattle ranches. Wild animals are common within the ranches with impala Aepyceros melampus and zebra Equus burchelli being the most numerous. The population sizes of impala (t = 0.4584) and zebra (t = 0.714) at the study sites on the ranches and inside the national park were not significantly different (p > 0.05). The predominant cattle breed is the Anko...

Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Serotype SAT 3 in Long-Horned Ankole Calf, Uganda

After a 16-year interval, foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype SAT 3 was isolated in 2013 from an apparently healthy long-horned Ankole calf that grazed close to buffalo in Uganda. The emergent virus strain is ≈20% different in nucleotide sequence (encoding VP1 [viral protein 1]) from its closest relatives isolated previously from buffalo in Uganda.

Characteristics of Ankole Longhorn cattle and their production environments in South Western Uganda: milk offtake and body measurements

Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assays for detection of Theileria parva infections targeting the PIM and p150 genes.

We have developed two loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assays for the detection of Theileria parva, the causative agent of East Coast fever (ECF), an economically important cattle disease in eastern, central and southern Africa. These assays target the polymorphic immunodominant molecule (PIM) and p150 LAMP genes. The primer set for each gene target consists of six primers, and eac...

Cloned Theileria parva produces lesser infections in ticks compared to uncloned T. parva despite similar infections in cattle.

Experimental transmissions of cloned Theileria parva in cattle with Rhipicephalus appendiculatus ticks were compared to transmissions with uncloned T. parva during studies on the potential for genetic recombination during syngamy of Theileria to produce antigenic diversity for evasion of bovine immunity. Prevalence and abundance of T. parva infection in adult ticks, which resulted from the feed...