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Variations in prevalence rates of tick-borne diseases in Zebu cattle by agroecological zone: implications for East Coast fever immunization
(University of Nairobi, 1993-07)
East Coast fever (ECF), caused by Theileria parva, is the most important tick-borne disease of cattle in much of eastern, central and southern Africa. In Kenya, immunization against ECF has been performed in many field ...
Current and potential roles of dairy cooperative societies in Kiambu District, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1995)
Assessing infections at multiple levels of aggregation
(University of Nairobi, 1997-01)
The patterns of sero-prevalence of antibodies to four infectious diseases, representing a broad range of pathogens (bacteria: brucellosis; mycoplasma: contagious bovine pleuropneumonia; viruses: infectious bovine ...
Incidence and risk factors of bovine lameness in small-scale dairy farms
(University of Nairobi, 1994)
Reviews the findings of a recent survey which studied the incidence, type and risk factors for lameness on 78 randomly selected small-scale dairy farms in central Kenya. In the farms studied, occurrence of lameness and ...
A review of methods used to adjust for cluster effects in explanatory epidemiological studies of animal populations
(University of Nairobi, 1994)
This paper reviews explanatory studies in the veterinary epidemiology literature, in which clusters (herds) were sampled and individual responses were measured. The studies were taken from the first ten volumes of Preventive ...