‘A Day in the Life of the People, Animals and their Zoonoses (PAZ) Project’, is series of blog articles by several members of ILRI staff working on the PAZ project based in Busia. These staff members, share their first hand experiences, challenges, and highlights of the project, in this post George Omondi Acharry, a laboratory … Continue reading »
Commercial vaccines based on the tick gut protein Bm86 have been successful in controlling the one-host tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus and provide heterologous protection against certain other non-target ixodid tick species. This cross protection, however, does not extend to the three-host tick R. appendiculatus, the vector of the protozoan parasite Theileria parva. When transmitted to … Continue reading »
Maria, a research technician with the ILRI Biotech theme is passionate about science, specifically animal research and enjoys every minute of her work. From the time she was young she always aspired to be a scientist and it was not by chance or a mistake that she studied Bachelor of science Bsc (Biochemistry, zoology) for … Continue reading »
