selected publications
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- Inverted CD4+/CD8+ T cell ratio in Boran (Bos indicus) cattle.. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology. 230:110126. 2020
- Spatial Distribution of Trypanosomes in Cattle From Western Kenya.. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 7:554. 2020
- IDEAL, the Infectious Diseases of East African Livestock project open access database and biobank.. Scientific Data. 7:224. 2020
- Reflections on IDEAL: What we have learnt from a unique calf cohort study. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 181:105062. 2020
- Theileria parva: a parasite of African buffalo, which has adapted to infect and undergo transmission in cattle.. International Journal for Parasitology. 50:403-412. 2020
- Similar levels of diversity in the gene encoding the p67 sporozoite surface protein of Theileria parva are observed in blood samples from buffalo and cattle naturally infected from buffalo.. Veterinary Parasitology. 269:21-27. 2019
- Infection and treatment method (ITM) vaccine against East Coast fever: reducing the number of doses per straw for use in smallholder dairy herds by thawing, diluting and refreezing already packaged vaccine. BMC Veterinary Research. 15:46. 2019
- Theileria parva antigens recognized by CD8+ T cells show varying degrees of diversity in buffalo-derived infected cell lines.. Parasitology. 145:1430-1439. 2018
- Immunization with one Theileria parva strain results in similar level of CTL strain-specificity and protection compared to immunization with the three-component Muguga cocktail in MHC-matched animals.. BMC Veterinary Research. 14:1-9. 2018
- Ancient diversity and geographical sub-structuring in African buffalo Theileria parva populations revealed through metagenetic analysis of antigen-encoding loci.. International Journal for Parasitology. 48:287-296. 2018
- Cytotoxic T lymphocytes from cattle sharing the same MHC class I haplotype and immunized with live Theileria parva sporozoites differ in antigenic specificity.. BMC Research Notes. 11:44. 2018
- Corrigendum to "Exposure of vaccinated and naive cattle to natural challenge from buffalo-derived Theileria parva" [Int. J. Parasitol. Parasites Wildl. 4(2) (2015) 244-251].. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY-PARASITES AND WILDLIFE. 6:219-219. 2017
- A thermostable presentation of the live, attenuated peste des petits ruminants vaccine in use in Africa and Asia. Vaccine. 35:3773-3779. 2017
- Seroprevalence of respiratory viral pathogens of indigenous calves in Western Kenya.. Research in Veterinary Science. 108:120-124. 2016
- Rapid identification of bovine MHCI haplotypes in genetically divergent cattle populations using next-generation sequencing.. Immunogenetics. 68:765-781. 2016
- Limited genetic and antigenic diversity within parasite isolates used in a live vaccine against Theileria parva. International Journal for Parasitology. 46:495-506. 2016
- Production and dose determination of the Infection and Treatment Method (ITM) Muguga cocktail vaccine used to control East Coast fever in cattle.. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 7:306-314. 2016
- Determination of the minimum fully protective dose of adenovirus-based DIVA vaccine against peste des petits ruminants virus challenge in East African goats.. Veterinary Research. 47:20-20. 2016
- Prevalence of Taenia solium cysticercosis in pigs entering the food chain in western Kenya. Tropical Animal Health and Production. 48:233-238. 2016
- The African buffalo parasite Theileria. sp. (buffalo) can infect and immortalize cattle leukocytes and encodes divergent orthologues of Theileria parva antigen genes. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY-PARASITES AND WILDLIFE. 4:333-342. 2015
- Exposure of vaccinated and naive cattle to natural challenge from buffalo-derived Theileria parva.. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY-PARASITES AND WILDLIFE. 4:244-251. 2015
- The epidemiology of tick-borne haemoparasites as determined by the reverse line blot hybridization assay in an intensively studied cohort of calves in western Kenya. Veterinary Parasitology. 210:69-76. 2015
- Co-infections determine patterns of mortality in a population exposed to parasite infection.. Science Advances. 1. 2015
- Variation and covariation in strongyle infection in East African shorthorn zebu calves. Parasitology. 142:499-511. 2015
- Development and Testing of a Field Diagnostic Assay for Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 61:390-396. 2014
- A longitudinal assessment of the serological response to Theileria parva and other tick-borne parasites from birth to one year in a cohort of indigenous calves in western Kenya. Parasitology. 141:1289-1298. 2014
- Role of the polymorphic immunodominant molecule in entry of Theileria parva sporozoites into bovine lymphocytes. Infection and Immunity. 82:1786-1792. 2014
- Genome-wide analysis reveals the ancient and recent admixture history of East African Shorthorn Zebu from Western Kenya. Heredity. 113:297-305. 2014
- Parasite Co-Infections and Their Impact on Survival of Indigenous Cattle. PLOS ONE. 9. 2014
- Approaches in livestock animal health research and management 2014
- Smallholder dairy farming in Tanzania: Farming practices, animal health and public health challenges and opportunities 2014
- The known and the unknowns: A multipathogen survey to identify diseases in cattle herds in Tanzania 2014
- Mortality in East African shorthorn zebu cattle under one year: predictors of infectious-disease mortality. BMC Veterinary Research. 9:175-175. 2013
- Parasite co-infections show synergistic and antagonistic interactions on growth performance of East African zebu cattle under one year.. Parasitology. 140:1789-1798. 2013
- Hematological profile of East African short-horn zebu calves from birth to 51 weeks of age. Comparative Haematology International. 22:1029-1036. 2013
- Maternal antibody uptake, duration and influence on survival and growth rate in a cohort of indigenous calves in a smallholder farming system in western Kenya.. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology. 155:129-134. 2013
- Bluetongue and epizootic haemorrhagic disease virus in local breeds of cattle in Kenya.. Research in Veterinary Science. 94:769-773. 2013
- Design and descriptive epidemiology of the Infectious Diseases of East African Livestock (IDEAL) project, a longitudinal calf cohort study in western Kenya. BMC Veterinary Research. 9. 2013
- Diagnosis of porcine cysticercosis using lateral flow assay and HP10 Ag ELISA 2013
- A live weight-heart girth relationship for accurate dosing of east African shorthorn zebu cattle.. Tropical Animal Health and Production. 45:311-316. 2012
- Designing bovine T cell vaccines via reverse immunology.. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 3:188-192. 2012
- Cytotoxic T lymphocytes from cattle immunized against Theileria parva exhibit pronounced cross-reactivity among different strain-specific epitopes of the Tp1 antigen.. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology. 145:571-581. 2012
- Molecular characterization of live Theileria parva sporozoite vaccine stabilates reveals extensive genotypic diversity. Veterinary Parasitology. 179:62-68. 2011
- Two Theileria parva CD8 T cell antigen genes are more variable in buffalo than cattle parasites, but differ in pattern of sequence diversity.. PLOS ONE. 6. 2011
- Detection of Antibodies to West Nile Virus in Horses, Costa Rica, 2004. Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 11:1081-1084. 2011
- A novel immuno-polymerase chain reaction protocol incorporating a highly purified streptavidin-DNA conjugate.. Journal of Immunoassay & Immunochemistry. 30:322-337. 2009
- An assay for the identification of antigens recognized by cytotoxic T cells, based on transient transfection of COS cells 1995
- Characterization of the gene encoding the polymorphic immunodominant molecule, a neutralizing antigen of Theileria parva 1995
- Strain specificity of bovine Theileria parva-specific cytotoxic T cells is determined by the phenotype of the restricting class I MHC 1990
- Transfection into mouse L cells of two serologically and functionally distinct bovine class I MHC molecules from a MHC-homozygoud animal: Evidence for a second class I locus in cattle 1990
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- Vaccines and diagnostics?The case for regional One Health centres of excellence 2016
- Improving the infection and treatment method vaccine for East Coast fever 2015
- Importance of livestock and the technological and policy challenges facing the development of livestock in Africa 2013
- The Infectious Diseases of East Africa Livestock (IDEAL) 2013
- An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of Theileria parva antibodies in cattle using a recombinant polymorphic immunodominant molecule 1998
- Identification of neutralization and diagnostic epitopes on PIM, the polymorphic immunodominant molecule of Theileria parva 1996
- Structure and sequence variation of the genes encoding the polymorphic, immunodominant molecule (PlM), a candidate diagnostic antigen of Theileria parva 1995
- Selection of BoCD25 monoclonal antibodies by screening mouse L cells transfected with the bovine p55-interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor gene 1992