Background: Avian influenza viruses may cause severe disease in a variety of domestic animal species worldwide, with high mortality in chickens and turkeys. To reduce the information gap about prevalence of these viruses ...

The economy of Uganda is largely dependent on agriculture, and both crop and animal production contribute up to 29.9% of the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Although pig products constitute an important source of ...

Postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) is a globally emergent epizootic disease of swine. The disease caused by Porcine Circovirus type 2 (PCV2) was first detected and described in Western Canada and has since ...

This study aimed at investigating the prevalence of trypanosomiasis and the usefulness of diminazene aceturate and isometamidium chloride in the treatment of pigs infected with Trypanosoma brucei subgroup. Whole blood was ...

Information about pig health in Uganda is greatly lacking and recent studies have indicated a high prevalence of trypanosome infections among pigs kept in tsetse infested and trypanosomosis endemic areas of Southern Uganda. ...