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Item Cattle Schistosomiasis Host parasite Interactions(Jean De Bont, 1959) De Bont, JSchistosomiasis is a common parasitic infection in cattle in Africa and Asia. Although schistosomes may, under rare conditions favouring intensive transmission, act as important pathogens per se (Kulkarni et al. 1954; Van Wyk et al. 1974; Markovics et al. 1993), most infections in endemic areas occur at a subclinical level. It has however been established that high prevalence rates of subclinical infections cause significant losses due to long-term effects on animal growth and productivity and increased susceptibility to other parasitic or bacterial diseases (Dargie, 1980; Pitchford & Visser, 1982; McCauley et al. 1983, 1984). For that reason and in parallel with studies on species affecting man, schistosomes of veterinary concern have received considerable interest over the last thirty years. Detailed reviews on cattle schistosomiasis have been published (Hussein, 1973; Lawrence, 1978a; Christensen et al. 1983 ; Kumar & de Burbure, 1986; Taylor, 1987). It is therefore not the intention here to provide a comprehensive review on the subject but rather to summarize the information available on those particular aspects discussed later in this thesis.Item The Importance of Water in the Management of Cattle(1956) French, M.H.; Joint Animal Industry Division of E.A.V.R.O. and E.A.A.F.R.O.Owing to the constant concern with the metabolic needs of animals for protein, energy, minerals and vitamins, and the attempt to keep up to date with the voluminous and growing literature dealing with these problems, there IS an excuse for many workers, in the well watered temperate areas of the world, omitting to emphasize the fundamental importance of water in animal nutrition. On movement from these areas to the semi-arid regions, where long droughts alternate with seasonal and often short rainy periods, and where livestock experience serious difficulties in finding and consuming sufficient herbage to maintain growth, reproduction and normal sustenance the seasonal water shortages exert such dominating influences that attention is quickly and importantly focused on livestock requirements.Item Notes On Animal Diseases Xix-Mastitis In Cattle(1956/1957) Department of Veterinary Services, KenyaMastitis or mammitis is the general name applied to inflammation of the udder; it must be realized that the name does not indicate any specific condition. Most forms of mastitis are difficult to control and the condition is responsible for great losses every year in all dairying countries. As the economic importance of the individual dairy cow rises more and more in Kenya, so will the significance of this condition.
