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SUBMITTER: Chatanga E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7281522 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chatanga Elisha E Hayashida Kyoko K Muleya Walter W Kusakisako Kodai K Moustafa Mohamed Abdallah Mohamed MAM Salim Bashir B Katakura Ken K Sugimoto Chihiro C Nonaka Nariaki N Nakao Ryo R
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 20200430 5
East Coast fever (ECF) is an acute fatal tick-borne disease of cattle caused by <i>Theileria</i> <i>parva</i>. It causes major losses in exotic and crossbreed cattle, but this could be prevented by a vaccine of <i>T. parva</i> if the vaccine is selected properly based on information from molecular epidemiology studies. The Muguga cocktail (MC) vaccine (Muguga, Kiambu 5 and Serengeti-transformed strains) has been used on exotic and crossbreed cattle. A total of 254 <i>T. parva</i> samples from va ...[more]