Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is endemic in Tanzania since it was first reported in 1954. Foot-and-mouth disease is caused by FMD virus (FMDV) that presents in seven serotypes. The FMD outbreaks that occur almost each year ...

In recent decades, the growing domestic pig population in response to an increase in demand for meat in sub-Saharan Africa has been followed by the increase of African swine fever (ASF) outbreaks. African swine fever is a ...

Livelihoods of the Maasai people in Northern Tanzania is sustained by Agriculture, specialising mostly in pastoral livestock production which is threatened by vector-borne diseases of which trypanosomosis is one of them. ...

Diseases at hatchery stage are among challenges that hinder optimal mariculture development in Tanzania. Information on the occurrences of bacterial infections in mariculture hatchery in the country is limited. Thus, ...

Malnutrition is among the serious health problems affecting infants, children and women of reproductive age in Tanzania. Various approaches have been adopted to address this problem. Such approaches include; importation ...

Cholera is an ancient disease but remains an important public health threat mainly in lowand- middle-income countries. The disease has been reported almost every year in Burundi. Understanding its spatial-temporal ...

Brucellosis is one of the most economically important bacterial zoonoses worldwide, affecting livestock, wild animals and humans. In Tanzania, brucellosis is in the list of six top priority zoonoses that the government ...

Poultry is a major reservoir of Salmonella worldwide associated with increasing incidences of strains producing ESBL enzymes that are capable of inactivating a wide variety of β- lactam antibiotics. CTX-M ESBLs have been ...

A cross sectional study was conducted to determine prevalence of bovine brucellosis in smallholder dairy farms in Morogoro Municipality. Milk and blood samples collected from 450 dairy cows in thirteen wards of Morogoro ...

A cross-sectional observational study was conducted in sheep and goats kept under traditional management system in Meru district, Tanzania in September 2014, with the objective of determining the prevalence of gastrointestinal ...