Theileria Parva

This is unpublished

Overview

Microscopic enlargement of Theileria parva

Theileria parva is found mostly in eastern, central and southern Africa. It causes the lympho-proliferative diseases known as East Coast fever, Corridor disease and January disease.

In eastern Africa in particular, it causes both mortality and reduced production, and has significant economic impacts as a result.

Source: CABI

 

OUR FOCUS

CERID is performing proof-of-principle experiments in mice testing a rapid synthetic “minigene” technology for highly parallel synthesis of multi-antigen DNA vaccines, an approach that could support discovery of vaccine subunits.

Associated labs