Monitoring vaccinated cattle for induction and longevity of persistent tick-transmissible infection: Implications for wider deployment of live vaccination against East Coast fever in Tanzania.

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The infection and treatment (ITM) procedure remains the only available method of immunization against Theileria parva infection. One constraint to deployment is the perception that the carrier state induced by ITM could result in enhanced disease problems. More than one million cattle have been ITM vaccinated in pastoralist systems in Tanzania over the last 2 decades. We present the results of a longitudinal...

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• Arachnid Vectors
• Epidemiological Monitoring
• Protozoan Vaccines
• Tanzania
• Theileriasis