In the last two decades, Cryptosporidium infection has increasingly become important as a cause of diarrhoea in humans especially in children under the age of 5 years and in the immuno-compromised, particularly those with ...

This study described the prevalence of avian influenza viruses in wild waterfowl and domestic birds on the wetlands of Northern Zambia (Luapula and Northern Provinces). The purpose of the research was to establish if there ...

A cross sectional study was carried out with specific objectives of assessing the relative profitability of smallholder dairy farming and determining the socio-economic factors affecting it, in six of the then nine provinces ...

This study was conducted to characterise the Mycoplasma mycoides subspecies mycoides Small Colony (MwmSC) variant in the Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP)new outbreak area of Kazungula District of Southern Province ...

One hundred Trypanosomiasis infected cattle were selected from a sample of 240 cattle located in Petauke district using the haematocrit woo method. This gave an overall trypanosomiasis prevalence of 41.7% in the area. These ...

Sida cordifolia, family Malvaceae, was suspected to have caused toxicity in small ruminants (sheep and goats) at one of the farms around Lusaka. To verify the suspicion the present study was planned and undertaken. The ...

Faecal egg counts, differential larval counts and post mortem total worm counts were done on seventy traditional cattle from Southern province of Zambia between February and September 1997 to establish the relationship ...

This study was conducted at Lochinvar and Blue Lagoon National Parks in the interface areas of wildlife and livestock of the Kafue Flats of Zambia to establish the prevalence and relatedness of Escherichia colt and Salmonella ...

Taeniosis and cysticercosis are public health problems in many developing countries, with the former being due to the adult worm of both Taenia solium (T. solium) and Taenia saginata (T. saginatd) while the latter is due ...