Publications by authors named "Hezron O Wesonga"
Article Synopsis
- In 2016, a heartwater-like disease outbreak in Kenya affected camels, resulting in the death of at least 2000 adult animals, with significant clinical symptoms like excitability and rapid breathing leading to death within approximately four days.
- The outbreak observed a 40% morbidity rate in one herd, with early antibiotic treatment reducing mortality to 7.5%, while untreated cases had a 100% fatality rate.
- Pathological findings included severe organ swelling and fluid accumulation, and diagnostic tests revealed the presence of Ehrlichia species in both sick camels and ticks collected from affected and healthy animals.
A cross-sectional survey was conducted between the months of March 2014 and March 2015 to determine the prevalence of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia in goat populations in pastoral flocks in three sub-counties of the Rift Valley region. A total of 432 serum samples were collected from goats from 54 flocks and tested for the presence of antibodies against mycoplasma capricolum subspecies capripneumoniae (mccp) using monoclonal antibody-based competitive enzyme-linked immuno-sorbent assay. Sero-prevalence recorded for Turkana West was 63.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA study was carried out to assess the effectiveness of a bronchoscope in administering a pathogenic field strain of Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides (MmmSC) in cattle challenge experiments. Out of 16 animals inoculated using the bronchoscope, 10 (62.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF