Publications

spatial and management factors associated with exposure of smallholder dairy cattle in tanzania to tick-borne pathogens.	a cross-sectional study of serum antibody responses of cattle to tick-borne pathogens (theileria parva, theileria mutans,anaplasma marginale, babesia bigemina and babesia bovis) was conducted on smallholder dairy farms in tanga and iringa regions of tanzania. seroprevalence was highest for t. parva (48% in iringa and 23% in tanga) and b. bigemina (43% in iringa and 27% in tanga) and lowest for b. bovis (12% in iringa and 6% in tanga). we use spatial and non-spatial models, fitted using classical ...	2005	16023121
seroprevalence of babesia bigemina in smallholder dairy cattle in tanzania and associated risk factors.	variations in the seroprevalence of antibody to babesia bigemina infection by farm and animal level risk factors were investigated for 2 contrasting regions of tanga and iringa in tanzania. tanga is situated in the eastern part of the country and has typical tropical coast climate while iringa is situated in the southern highlands and has a tropical highland climate. two hundred farms from each region were selected using simple random sampling procedure and visited once between january 1999 and ...	2007	17665760