A5107210415- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- T-cell and B-cell Immunology
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Virology and Viral Diseases
- Microbial infections and disease research
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research
- Regional resilience and development
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Rabies epidemiology and control
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office
2023
European Food Safety Authority
2022
University of Edinburgh
2016-2019
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2018-2019
Roslin Institute
2014-2019
Genomics (United Kingdom)
2016
Abstract Movement of live animals is a major risk factor for the spread livestock diseases and zoonotic infections. Understanding contact patterns key to informing cost-effective surveillance control strategies. In West Central Africa some most rapid urbanization globally expected increase demand animal-source foods need safer more efficient animal production. Livestock trading points represent strategic node in dissemination multiple pathogens. From October 2014 May 2015 official...
In sub-Saharan Africa, livestock transhumance represents a key adaptation strategy to environmental variability. this context, seasonal also plays an important role in driving the dynamics of multiple infectious diseases. Cameroon, cattle is common practice during dry season across all main production zones. Currently, little recorded information migratory routes, grazing locations and nomadic herding practices adopted by pastoralists, limits our understanding pastoral movements country....
Live animal markets are common hotspots for the dispersal of multiple infectious diseases in various production systems globally. In Cameroon livestock trade occurs predominantly via a system markets. Improving understanding risks associated with and is, therefore, key to design targeted evidence-based interventions. current study, official transaction records 12-month period were collected from 62 across Central Southern Cameroon, combination questionnaire-based survey stakeholders. The...
When studying the dynamics of a pathogen in host population, one crucial question is whether it transitioned from an epidemic (i.e., population and number infected hosts are increasing) to endemic stable state reached equilibrium). For slow-growing slow-evolving clonal pathogens such as Mycobacterium bovis , causative agent bovine (or animal) zoonotic tuberculosis, can be challenging discriminate between these two states. This result combination suboptimal detection tests so that actual...
The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) region contains many genes that are key regulators of both innate and adaptive immunity including the polymorphic MHCI MHCII genes. Consequently, characterisation repertoire MHC is critical to understanding variation determines nature immune responses. Our current knowledge bovine limited with only Holstein-Friesian breed having been studied in any depth. Traditional methods genotyping low resolution laborious this has a impediment more...
Abstract Rabies is a neglected zoonotic disease that causes around 59,000 deaths per year globally. In Africa, rabies virus mostly maintained in populations of free‐roaming domestic dogs (FRDD) are predominantly owned. Characterizing the roaming behavior FRDD can provide relevant information to understand spread and inform prevention control interventions. To estimate home range (HR) identify predictors HR size, we studied 168 seven different areas Blantyre city, Malawi, tracking them with...
Livestock production and trade are critical for the food security welfare of rural households in sub-Saharan Africa. In Cameroon, animal consists mainly live cattle commercialized through livestock markets. Identifying factors contributing to price formation is designing effective policies sustainable increasing availability. this study, we evaluated influence a range individual- market-level on that were sold all transactions (n=118,017) recorded over 12-month period from 31 markets main...
Abstract This article updates and further develops the reflections of “Urbanization Sustainability after COVID-19 Pandemic” (Motta 2020). It is now even more urgent to focus on urban–rural relationships that are being modified by pandemic, climate change, impacts conflicts, causing serious human insecurities increasing precarious circumstances worldwide. The fast-changing situation recurrent emergencies confirm need for a new urban development approach, related specificities surrounding...