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ILRI News on CBPP

22 Dec 2021

Making a subunit vaccine against contagious bovine pleuropneumonia to improve the livelihoods of cattle owners in Africa

Scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) are working closely with the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada to identify antigens to help develop a new vaccine for contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP), a highly contagious disease of cattle in Africa. Funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) , the new vaccine is being developed by the VIDO-InterVac and the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO) .

Ekta PatelScientist & Communications Manager - Biosciences

ILVAC - saving livestock with vaccines

17 Dec 2018

Towards improved vaccines against contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP)

Elise Schieck a , Anne Liljander a and Joerg Jores a,b a International Livestock Research Institute, Box 30709, 00100, Nairobi, Kenya b Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Länggass-Str. 122, Postfach 3001, Bern, Switzerland Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia...

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ILRI Projects on CBPP

Aug 2011Jul 2014

Accelerating CBPP research towards a better vaccine through application of synthetic biology

Objectives: Our long-term perspective is to apply key synthetic biology technologies to gain knowledge for vaccine development against diverse mycoplasma infections; the current project will show proof of principle. Two approaches will be pursued. 1. We propose to transfer the synthetic biology...

May 2010Oct 2013

Enhanced control of Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) in sub Saharan Africa through development of better diagnostics and vaccines

Objectives/goals To alleviate negative impacts of CBPP on pastoralist and othe livestock keepers in endemic areas of sub Saharan African countries. Expected outputs Laboratory assay that provides greater sensitivity and specificity than the existing test and that is capable of accurately estimating...