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Community response to malaria: Muheza district Tanzania 1983-1984 . A study in cultural adaptation

Fivawo, Margaret (1986)

This study of a rural community in the malaria endemic area of Muheza in Tanzania deals with several issues. (1) Malaria as a health problem is looked at from its ecological epidemiological context. It is seen as a ...
Ultrastructural study of brain with experimental cowdria ruminantium infection (heartwater)

Mwamengele, George L. M. (1991)

Heartwater is an infectious, vector-borne, non-contagious disease of ruminants caused by Cowdria ruminantium. The etiologic agent is an obligate, intracellular parasite infecting phagocytic cells and, particularly, ...
Studies on the effects of trypanosoma congolense infection on the reproductive function of the ram

Mutayoba, Benezeth Mugyabuso (University of Glasgow, 1993-12)

This thesis describes a series of studies carried out in Scottish blackface rams experimentally infected with Trypanosoma congolense stabilates 57/10 and 57/11 (originally imported from ILRAD, Kenya as ILRAD 1180) with ...
Epidemiological studies on bovine parasitic otitis

Shayo, Elizabeth Tabu Elikana (Sokoine University of Agriculture, 1998)

Experimental infection with Rhabditis bovis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Actinomyces pyogenes was carried out on fifty-three male weaner calves. The calves were inoculated into their ears with seven different combinations ...
Prevalence, epidemiology, and virulence of Pasteurella multocida and related organisms obtained from poultry and their animal contacts

Muhairwa, Amandus Pachificus (The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, 2000)

This thesis is divided into two sections. The first section presents six reviewing chapters in relation to work performed and a chapter detailing conclusions from the study. The second part contains four papers referred ...
Performance of grazing crossbred cattle supplemented with minerals: calcium, phosphorus and zinc

Phiri, Elliot Chikula Jailos Henderson (Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2001)

A study was conducted from 1997 to 1999 in Iringa region, Tanzania in order to evaluate the mineral status and performance of grazing crossbred dairy cattle as affected by season and nature of mineral supplementation. ...
Diversity among local chicken ecotypes in Tanzania.

Msoffe, Peter L. M. (Sokoine University of Agriculture., 2003)

This study was conducted in order to establish the genetic and phenotypic diversity among nine local chicken ecotypes of Tanzania namely Ching’wekwe, Kuchi, Mbeya, Morogoro-medium, N’zenzegere, Pemba, Singamagazi, Tanga ...
Occurrence and characteristics of A. vibacterium paragallinarum in Uganda

Byarugaba, Denis Karuhize (Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2006)

Investigations were conducted to establish the occurrence and characteristics of Avibacterium paragallinarum in Uganda. Seven hundred and ten bacteriological and serum samples (642 from healthy birds and 68 from chickens ...
Study on congenitally acquired Plasmodium Falciparum infection in neonates in Muheza district, Tanzania

Mwangoka, Grace Wynn (Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2006)

The study aimed to determine if infants diagnosed with malaria parasites in the age below three months acquire the infection congenitally from their mothers through the placenta. Placenta blood, cord blood samples and ...
Self-care practices and psychosocial distress for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Dar es salaam, tanzania.

Heri Rashidi, Rashidi (Sokoine university of Agriculture, 2007)

Nutritional intake and modification of lifestyle are the cornerstones for management of Type 2 diabetes. It has been recognized that, in order to achieve satisfactory metabolic control, adoption of self-care skills by ...
Assessment of public private partnership on health service delivery in Dodoma municipal and district councils in Tanzania

Itika, Josephat Stephen (2007)

The thesis answers the question: “what is the nature, motive, model, contribution and effects of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) on health service delivery?” The general objective of the research was to assess the ...
Prevalence and risk factors of porcine cysticercosis associated with traditional pig production and marketing in Angonia district, Mozambique

Gule, Cláudio Afonso (Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2008)

This study was carried out to estimate the porcine cysticercosis prevalence by meat inspection, identify the risk factors of porcine cysticercosis along the pig/pork marketing channels and describe the pig productions ...
Prevalence of endoparasites of public health importance in pigs slaughtered in Dar es salaam city, Tanzania

Mkupasi, Ernatus Martin (Sokoine university of Agriculture, 2008)

This study was carried out to establish the prevalence of porcine cysticercosis (caused by Taenia solium), hydatidosis and ascariosis in slaughter pigs, and assess the state and distribution of pig slaughter slabs in Dar ...
Prevalence of porcine cysticercosis in Mbozi and Mbeya rural districts, Mbeya Tanzania

Komba, Erick Vitus Gabriel (Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2008)

An epidemiological survey was conducted between November and December 2007 in 30 randomly selected villages and four slaughterslabs in Mbozi and Mbeya Rural districts, southern Tanzania, to determine the prevalence of ...
Risk factors associated with HIV/AIDS infection among itinerant women entrepreneurs in Mbeya city and Kyela district, Tanzania

Kirway, Jeremiah Norbert (Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2009)

The study to assess risk factors associated with HIV/AIDS infection among itinerant women entrepreneurs (IWE) was conducted in Mbeya City and Kyela District in Mbeya Region. Women in the two districts have trade links ...
Prevalence, risk factors and genetic relatedness among thermophilic campylobacters from humans and chickens using rapd-pcr in Morogoro, Tanzania

Chuma, Idrissa Shomari (Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2009)

jejuni and 5% of C. coli were100% similar. Conclusively, zoonotic thermophilic Campylobacter infections existed between humans and chickens in Morogoro municipality. Besides chickens, the role played by other domestic ...
Role of domestic animals in the epidemiology of human African trypanosomiasis (hat) in Kigoma –Tanzania

Nzalawahe, Jahashi (Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2010)

Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is fatal if untreated and causes severe morbidity. In Tanzania HAT is caused by Trypanosoma b. rhodesiense. Trypanosomiasis in livestock is the major impediment to livestock farming ...
Influence of haptoglobin genotypes on susceptibility to malaria and the effect of malaria parasitemia to the haptoglobin levels in children

Alfred, Benigni (Sokoine university of agriculture., 2010)

Haptoglobin gene encodes for an acute phase protein; Haptoglobin and is expressed in three different polymorphic forms, Hp1-1, Hp1-2 and Hp2-2. Various studies on pathogenesis of Malaria maintain that Haptoglobin ...
Porcine cysticercosis in Angonia district, North-Western Mozambique: epidemiology and evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of oxfendazole treatment

Junior, Alberto Pondja (Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2010)

A research was conducted to investigate the epidemiology of porcine cysticercosis in Angonia district, Mozambique, and to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of oxfendazole (OFZ) for the treatment of porcine ...
Studies on evaluation of performance of trained sniffer rats in detection of mycobacteria species from clinical cases of human Tuberculosis

Makingi, George (Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2012)

The Belgian humanitarian research organisation Anti-Persoonmijnen Ontmjinende Product Ontwikelling (APOPO), in collaboration with the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), has pioneered a project that involves the ...

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