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Gudali cattle (Bos indicus) on the Adamawa Plateau, Cameroon.
Cattle that graze near the River Vina du Sud in northern Cameroon naturally acquire the filarial parasite Onchocerca ochengi, the closest relative of O. volvulus, which causes river blindness in humans. In this issue, Makepeace et al. (doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000544) find that animals vaccinated with a combination of eight recombinant antigens were partially protected against patent infection after nearly two years of field exposure.
Photo Credit: Kevin Krcmarik
Citation: (2009) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 3(11) November 2009. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 3(11): ev03.i11. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v03.i11
Published: November 24, 2009
Copyright: © 2009 Makepeace et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Cattle that graze near the River Vina du Sud in northern Cameroon naturally acquire the filarial parasite Onchocerca ochengi, the closest relative of O. volvulus, which causes river blindness in humans. In this issue, Makepeace et al. (doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000544) find that animals vaccinated with a combination of eight recombinant antigens were partially protected against patent infection after nearly two years of field exposure.
Photo Credit: Kevin Krcmarik