Yaw Oppong Frimpong
Department of Animal ScienceLife SciencesHealth Sciences

Yaw Oppong Frimpong

23 Publications14 Research Themes20 Open Access
Research Overview & Focus

The researcher has made significant contributions in diverse areas spanning agriculture, rural development, and health sciences. Their work integrates advancements in ruminant nutrition and digestive physiology with novel approaches in animal health and immunology, emphasizing the critical role of these fields in mitigating agricultural risks and enhancing public health outcomes.

Faculty Biography

Dr Yaw Oppong Frimpong obtained his B.Sc. (Hons) Agriculture, M. Sc and Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Prior to his appointment as a lecturer at the Department of Animal Science, KNUST, he worked as an Assistant Lecturer (August 2018 to December 2019) and Lecturer (January to August 2019) at the Department of Animal Production and Health, University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR), Ghana.His research interests include finding natural and sustainable alternatives to antimicrobial growth promoting substances in animal feeding, relationship between nutrition and zoonotic diseases, using edible insects as alternative protein sources in animal nutrition, organic animal production and the use of non-conventional feed resources as ingredients in monogastric livestock feeding.Dr Frimpong has authored and co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles and has been a reviewer for several journals including Open Agriculture De Gruyter, International Journal of Fisheries and Aquaculture and African Journal of Biotechnology.

Key Research Themes (14)
Life Sciences

Agriculture and Rural Development Research

Life Sciences

Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development

Health Sciences

Animal health and immunology

Life Sciences

Animal Nutrition and Physiology

Life Sciences

Animal Virus Infections Studies

Life Sciences

Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock

Health Sciences

Ginkgo biloba and Cashew Applications

Health Sciences

Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology

Life Sciences

Insect Utilization and Effects

Life Sciences

Meat and Animal Product Quality

Life Sciences

Pharmacological Effects and Assays

Life Sciences

Rabbits: Nutrition, Reproduction, Health

Life Sciences

Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology

Health Sciences

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Publications (23)

PHOTOPERIOD EFFECT ON GROWTH, REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS, HORMONAL AND THERMO-PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE OF THE PEARL GUINEA FOWLS

Open Access
2025Effects of Environmental Stressors on LivestockDOI: 10.56369/tsaes.5650

Nutritional evaluation and supplementation effect of bamboo leaves on intake, growth performance, and blood indices of Djallonké sheep fed <i>Cenchrus purpureus</i> and <i>Brachiaria decumbens</i> as basal diets

Open Access
2024Agriculture and Rural Development ResearchDOI: 10.4314/gjansci.v14i1.6

Sustainable Small Ruminant Production in Low- and Middle-Income African Countries: Harnessing the Potential of Agroecology

Open Access
2023Agriculture, Land Use, Rural DevelopmentDOI: 10.3390/su152115326

Effects of supplementing rice straw with two fodder tree leaves and their combinations on voluntary feed intake, growth, and nitrogen utilization in sheep

Open Access
2023Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive PhysiologyDOI: 10.1093/tas/txad004

Nutrient profiling of ruminant feed resources in Ghana

Open Access
2022Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive PhysiologyDOI: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2022.e01495

Incidence of Blood and Meat Spots in Eggs from a Commercial Poultry Farm

Open Access
2022Meat and Animal Product QualityDOI: 10.4314/gjs.v63i1.7

Effects of dried cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.) apple meal (DCAM) on the growth performance and internal organs of albino rats

Open Access
2021Ginkgo biloba and Cashew ApplicationsDOI: 10.4314/gjas.v56i2.2

Response of large white gilts to diets containing differing probiotic products

Open Access
2021Pharmacological Effects and AssaysDOI: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2021.e00878

Sero-molecular epidemiology of hepatitis E virus in pigs and human contacts in Ghana

Open Access
2021Hepatitis Viruses Studies and EpidemiologyDOI: 10.1186/s42522-021-00043-w

Molecular-based cross-species evaluation of bovine coronavirus infection in cattle, sheep and goats in Ghana

Open Access
2020Animal Virus Infections StudiesDOI: 10.1186/s12917-020-02606-x

Molecular-based cross-species evaluation of bovine coronavirus infection in cattle, sheep and goats in Ghana.

Open Access
2020Animal Virus Infections StudiesDOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-24727/v5

Molecular-based cross-species evaluation of bovine coronavirus infection in cattle, sheep and goats in Ghana.

Open Access
2020Animal Virus Infections StudiesDOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-24727/v4

Molecular-based cross-species evaluation of bovine coronavirus infection in cattle, sheep and goats in Ghana.

Open Access
2020Animal Virus Infections StudiesDOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-24727/v3

Molecular-based cross-species evaluation of bovine coronavirus infection in cattle, sheep and goats in Ghana.

Open Access
2020Animal Virus Infections StudiesDOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-24727/v2

Molecular-Based Cross-Species Evaluation of Bovine Coronavirus Infection in Cattle, Sheep and Goats in Ghana.

Open Access
2020Animal Virus Infections StudiesDOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-24727/v1

Sero-prevalence, cross-species infection and serological determinants of prevalence of Bovine Coronavirus in Cattle, Sheep and Goats in Ghana

Open Access
2019Animal Virus Infections StudiesDOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2019.108544

Feeding differing direct-fed microbials and its influence on growth and haematological parameters of growing lambs1

Open Access
2019Animal health and immunologyDOI: 10.1093/tas/txz053

Potential Intermediate Hosts for Coronavirus Transmission: No Evidence of Clade 2c Coronaviruses in Domestic Livestock from Ghana

Open Access
2019SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchDOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed4010034

Development of a Whole-Virus ELISA for Serological Evaluation of Domestic Livestock as Possible Hosts of Human Coronavirus NL63

Open Access
2019SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchDOI: 10.3390/v11010043

Cocoa placenta meal: yield estimates, nutrient composition and response of albino rats to diets containing graded levels with or without XZYMETM an exogenous enzyme-probiotic complex.

2019Rabbits: Nutrition, Reproduction, Health

PSXIV-6 Feeding differing direct fed microbials and its influence on growth and haematological parameters of growing lambs.

2018Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive PhysiologyDOI: 10.1093/jas/sky404.974

Entomophagous Response of Albino Rats to Cockroach (Periplaneta Americana) Meal

Open Access
2018Insect Utilization and EffectsDOI: 10.1515/opag-2018-0023

RESPONSES OF ALBINO RATS TO HIGH RICE BRAN DIETS: EFFECTS OF TYPE OF RICE BRAN AND LEVEL OF X-ZYME™ (An Exogenous Enzymes + Probiotics Feed Additive)

2013Animal Nutrition and Physiology
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DepartmentDepartment of Animal Science
Total Publications23
Research Themes14
Open Access Papers20

Department of Animal Science

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