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The animal reservoir of cutaneous leishmaniasis on Mount Elgon, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 1975)
An account is given of an investigation of the animal reservoir of cutaneous leishmaniasis [caused by Leishmania tropica] on Mt. Elgon, Kenya [cf. RAE/B 59, 1883], where the infection is transmitted by Phlebotomus pedifer ...
A survey of insect pest species associated with sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 1979)
The results are presented of a survey of insect pests on sunflower in Kenya in 1974-75. A list is provided of 80 species of Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, Diptera and Thysanoptera that were found damaging ...
Protozoa and the decline of Rhizobiurn populations added to soil
(1975)
A fall in Rhizobium abundance occurred in nonsterile soil inoculated with large numbers of the root-nodule bacteria but many of the rhizobia still survirved. No such decline was evident in sterile soil. Protozoa feeding ...
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 ...
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 ...
Histopathology of skin lesions in Uasin Gishu skin disease of horses.
(University of Nairobi, 1975)
Histological study of the lesions from seven naturally occurring cases of Uasin Gishu skin disease showed changes similar to those described originally in 1934 for this disease, and later for the lesions caused by vaccinia ...
Isolation and characterization of bovine parainfluenza type 3 virus from cattle in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 1973)
All seven isolates recovered from respiratory disease in a herd of cattle were parainfluenza type 3. The increase in HI antibody titres between the acute phase and the convalescent phase of the disease suggested that it ...