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“Everything in this world has been given to us from cows”, a qualitative study on farmers’ perceptions of keeping dairy cattle in Senegal and implications for disease control and healthcare delivery (2021)
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Craighead, L., Cardwell, J. M., Prakashbabu, B. C., Ba, E., Musallam, I., Alambédji, R. B., …Häsler, B. (in press). “Everything in this world has been given to us from cows”, a qualitative study on farmers’ perceptions of keeping dairy cattle in Senegal and implications for disease control and healthcare delivery. PLoS ONE, 16(2), e0247644. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247644

The dairy industry in Senegal is growing and evolving against a backdrop of rapid urbanisa-tion and increasing consumer demand for dairy products. Consideration of appropriate cattle healthcare delivery and disease control in these evolving farming s... Read More about “Everything in this world has been given to us from cows”, a qualitative study on farmers’ perceptions of keeping dairy cattle in Senegal and implications for disease control and healthcare delivery.

“We never boil our milk, it will cause sore udders and mastitis in our cows”- consumption practices, knowledge and milk safety awareness in Senegal (2020)
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Chengat Prakashbabu, B., Craighead, L., Ndour, A. P., Yempab, D., Ba, E., Alambédji-Bada, R., …Guitian, J. (2020). “We never boil our milk, it will cause sore udders and mastitis in our cows”- consumption practices, knowledge and milk safety awareness in Senegal. BMC Public Health, 20(742), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08877-1

Brucellosis in West and Central Africa: A review of the current situation in a changing landscape of dairy cattle systems (2018)
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Craighead, L., Meyer, A., Chengat, B., Musallam, I., Akakpo, J., Kone, P., …Haesler, B. (2018). Brucellosis in West and Central Africa: A review of the current situation in a changing landscape of dairy cattle systems. Acta Tropica, 179, 96-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2017.12.026

Brucellosis is a neglected endemic zoonosis in West and Central Africa. In this narrative review, evidence of livestock and human infection is presented along with details of past and current control strategies in 14 selected countries. Data from ava... Read More about Brucellosis in West and Central Africa: A review of the current situation in a changing landscape of dairy cattle systems.

Herd-level prevalence of selected endemic infectious diseases of dairy cows in Great Britain (2017)
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Velasova, M., Damaso, A., Chengat Prakashbabu, B., Gibbons, J., Wheelhouse, N., Longbottom, D., …Guitian, J. (2017). Herd-level prevalence of selected endemic infectious diseases of dairy cows in Great Britain. Journal of Dairy Science, 100(11), 9215-9233. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2016-11863

To implement appropriate and effective disease control programs at the national level, up-to-date and unbiased information on disease frequency is needed. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of selected endemic infectious diseases in... Read More about Herd-level prevalence of selected endemic infectious diseases of dairy cows in Great Britain.

Eimeria species occurrence varies between geographic regions and poultry production systems and may influence parasite genetic diversity (2017)
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Chengat Prakashbabu, B., Thenmozhi, V., Limon, G., Kundu, K., Kumar, S., Garg, R., …Blake, D. P. (2017). Eimeria species occurrence varies between geographic regions and poultry production systems and may influence parasite genetic diversity. Veterinary Parasitology, 233, 62-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vetpar.2016.12.003

Coccidiosis is one of the biggest challenges faced by the global poultry industry. Recent studies have highlighted the ubiquitous distribution of all Eimeria species which can cause this disease in chickens, but intriguingly revealed a regional divid... Read More about Eimeria species occurrence varies between geographic regions and poultry production systems and may influence parasite genetic diversity.