The Orma Boran—ten years of field observations
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Date
1994
Authors
Munga, Leonard
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Towards Increased Use of Trypanotolerance: Current Research and Future Directions
Abstract
In 1913 Balfour reported Bos indicus cattle in the Koalib area of Sudan which he claimed
were immune to trypanosomiasis (Balfour, 1913). Since that date trypanotolerance has been
reported in other Bos indicus breeds in Sudan, Zaire, Uganda and Kenya (see Dolan, 1987
for references). Yet, despite these reports in the literature, little effort has been made to
investigate the nature or extent of differential susceptibility to trypanosomiasis amongst
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