ILRAD 1994 : annual scientific report

The tick-borne diseases program has three major elements: the epidemiology of the diseases and of the organisms which cause them; parasite antigens which may provide the basis of either diagnostic assays or of vaccine formulations against the tick-borne diseases of livestock; and development of vaccine procedures appropriate to the production of protective immune responses against these diseases in cattle. Much of this work focuses on the protozoan parasite Theileria parva, the causative agent of East Coast fever in cattle. Research on trypanosomiasis has followed two major approaches: the epidemiology of the disease complex, and host-parasite interactions. Socioeconomic research has provided methodologies, computerized systems (such as economic models and geographic information systems) and data to better evaluate the cost of the diseases that ILRAD is studying. Includes a list of ILRAD publications for 1994. No indexes are provided.