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An outbreak of urticarial form of swine erysipelas in a medium-scale piggery in Kiambu District, Kenya
(1998)
This report concerns an outbreak that occurred during July/August 1997. Ten pigs from a herd of 181 pigs in a medium-scale, semi-closed piggery in Kiambu District, Kenya, contracted the clinical disease. The main clinical ...
Influence of seedling age and nitrogen application method on dry matter production and nitrogen uptake of lowland rice cultivated on an Alfisol.
(Univeristy of Nairobi, 1992)
In a field experiment during the long and short rainy seasons in 1987 at Ibadan, Nigeria, rice cv. IITA 212 DM production was not affected by transplanting 21-, 31- or 41-d-old seedlings. Placement of 60 kg N/ha at 5-10 ...
Buffer pH methods for estimation of lime requirement of tropical acid soils.
(Univeristy of Nairobi, 1981)
Lime requirements (LR) of 26 acid agricultural soils were estimated using the following buffer methods: Shoemaker-McLean-Pratt single buffer (SMP-SB), SMP double buffer (SMP-DB), Mehlich buffer method for crops with high ...
Duration of Brucella ovis infection in ewes.
(University of Nairobi, 1975)
Twenty Romney Marsh ewes, some 5 to 40 days pregnant, were inoculated with a strain of B. ovis onto the scarified mucous membrane of the vagina. Establishment of infection was ascertained by recovery of the organisms from ...
Leucocyte migration inhibition as a model for the demonstration of sensitized cells in East Coast fever
(University of Nairobi, 1974)
When bovine peripheral leucocytes were used in a migration inhibition test to detect sensitization to Theileria parva antigens, 76% of cattle that were exposed to T. parva antigens yielded sensitive cells. The reaction was ...
Tannin and fiber contents of rapeseed and canola hulls
(1982)
Hulls from rapeseed and canola seed were analyzed for tannins, and the ability
of these tannins to inhibit a-amylase in vitro was determined. Extractable tannin
content ranged from 0.02 to O.22Vc. The a-amylase inhibition ...
Effect of salinity level on the drinking rate in atropical teleost, Oreochromis andersoni.
(University of Nairobi, 1998)
A study was carried out to determine the euryhalinity and the effect of salinity changes on the drinking of tilapia, Oreochromis andersoni. Drinking rate of the fish in fresh water, and at 50%, 75% and 100% sea water was ...
The erodibility of two soils from Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 1979)
A portable fainfall simulator was used to measure the runoff rates and soil losses from a freshly ploughed luvisol at Katumani, and anitosol at Kabete, on a 6 deg slope at varying rainfall intensities. The soil losses from ...
Identification of Ehrlichia canis in East Africa.
(University of Nairobi, 1976)
The organism was identified in a dog in Kenya. Transmission studies to two dogs resulted in signs of ehrlichiosis including thrombocytopenia, pyrexia, reduction in packed cell volume, and presence of E. canis in peripheral ...
Peddiea fischeri Engl. toxicity: effects on some sheep hematological and biochemical parameters.
(University of Nairobi, 1994)
Ten Red Maasai sheep were fed rations containing 2, 4, 8, 16 or 32% of ground dried P. fischeri leaves for 15 weeks. A decrease in red blood cell counts, haemoglobin concentration, packed cell volume and lymphocyte and ...