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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

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-019-1787-y

Published Online: 2019-01-31

Published Print: 2019-12

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Patel, Ekta https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9400-6988
Mwaura, Stephen

Di Giulio, Giuseppe

Cook, Elizabeth A. J.

Lynen, Godelieve

Toye, Philip
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Article History

Received: 10 June 2018

Accepted: 17 January 2019

First Online: 31 January 2019

Ethics approval

: The animal study was approved by the ILRI Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Reference No. IACUC-2011-02 with Amendement-2011-06. Animal owner consents were not necessary, as all animals were owned by ILRI. The field immunizations were carried out by the registered TZ - ECF vaccine distributor, registration holder and ILRI’s Local Technical Representative (LTR) for the ECF vaccine in Tanzania. Permission to test ECF vaccine in the field is inherent to the functions of the LTR. The immunizations were done with consent of the participating livestock owners and special approval of the Tanzanian Director of Veterinary Services.

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