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Browsing Veterinary Tropical Diseases by Type "Postprint Article"
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Osuagwuh, Uchebuchi I.; Bagla, Victor Patrick; Venter, Estelle Hildegard; Annandale, C.H. (Cornelius Henry); Irons, Pete Charles
(Elsevier, 2007-03-08)
Twelve serologically negative bulls were used, six were vaccinated with a modified live LSD vaccine and six unvaccinated. All were then experimentally infected with a virulent field strain of LSDV. No clinical abnormality ...
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Bernard, Onoja Anyebe; Arthur, Sabastine Eugene; Aminu, Maryam; Bonney, Evelyn Yayra; Abdul-Azeez, Anjorin A.; Chofong, Gilbert Nchongboh; Kafintu-kwashie, Anna; Sabeta, Claude; Yassin, Abdelaziz A.; Adiku, Theophilus A.
(Elsevier, 2025-05)
Africa has long been a hotspot for emerging and re-emerging viral infections such as Ebola, Mpox, Lassa fever, HIV, and arboviruses. Despite the continent's critical role in virology, African virologists have historically ...
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Sumanu, Victory Osirimade; Naidoo, Vinny; Oosthuizen, Marinda C.; Chamunorwa, Joseph Panashe
(Springer, 2022-12)
Broiler chicken meat is a good source of protein consumed universally, and is one of the most commonly farmed species in world. In addition to providing food, poultry non-edible byproducts also have value. A major advantage ...
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Mulumba-Mfumu, Leopold K.; Saegerman, Claude; Dixon, Linda K.; Madimba, Kapanga C.; Kazadi, Eric; Mukalakata, Ndeji T.; Oura, Chris A.L.; Chenais, Erika; Masembe, Charles; Stahl, Karl; Thiry, Etienne; Penrith, Mary-Louise
(Wiley, 2019-07)
Control of African swine fever (ASF) in countries in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (ECSA) is particularly complex owing to the presence of all three known epidemiological cycles of maintenance of the virus, namely ...
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Brown, A.A.; Penrith, Mary-Louise; Fasina, Folorunso Oludayo; Beltran-Alcrudo, D.
(Wiley, 2018-02)
African swine fever (ASF) is a contagious, highly fatal, haemorrhagic viral disease that only affects members of the Suidae family. Currently, no vaccine or treatment exists, so the disease has potentially devastating ...
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Penrith, Mary-Louise; Vosloo, Wilna; Jori, Ferran J.; Bastos, Armanda D.S.
(Elsevier, 2013)
African swine fever was reported in domestic pigs in 26 African countries during the period 2009–2011.
The virus exists in an ancient sylvatic cycle between warthogs (Phacochoerus africanus) and argasid ticks
of the ...
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Schlotter, Yvette M.; Willemse, Ton; Riemers, Frank; Rutten, Victor P.M.G.; Knol, Edward F.; Davenport, Gary
(Elsevier, 2009)
No abstract available
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Sibeko-Matjila, Kgomotso Penelope; Collins, Nicola E.; Oosthuizen, Marinda C.; Troskie, Milana; Potgieter, Fred T.; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Geysen, Dirk
(Elsevier, 2011-09)
Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of PCR products (PCR-RFLP) and sequencing
of the variable region of the p104 and PIM genes was performed on samples obtained from South
African T. parva parasites originating ...
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Espinaze, Marcela P.A.; Hellard, Eléonore; Horak, Ivan Gerard; Cumming, Graeme S.
(Cambridge University Press, 2016-03)
Ticks and tick-borne pathogens can have considerable impacts on the health of livestock, wildlife and people. Knowledge
of tick–host preferences is necessary for both tick and pathogen control. Ticks were historically ...
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Hove, Paidashe; Brayton, Kelly A.; Liebenberg, Junita; Pretorius, Alri; Oosthuizen, Marinda C.; Noh, Susan Marite; Collins, Nicola E.
(Elsevier, 2020-07)
Bovine anaplasmosis is a globally economically important tick-borne disease caused by the obligate intraerythrocytic rickettsia, Anaplasma marginale. A live Anaplasma centrale blood-based vaccine is available, but it does ...
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Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes); De Castro, Minique H.; Pienaar, Ronel; De Klerk, Daniel; Gaven, Philasande; Genu, Siyamcela; Latif, Abdalla A.
(Elsevier, 2016-06)
Ancestral reconstruction in its fullest sense aims to describe the complete evolutionary history of a lineage.
This depends on accurate phylogenies and an understanding of the key characters of each parental
lineage. An ...
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Joone, C.J. (Carolynne); Schulman, M.L. (Martin); Fosgate, Geoffrey Theodore; Plagis, T.A.; Crafford, Jan Ernst; Gupta, Satish K.; Bertschinger, Hendrik Jan
(Elsevier, 2019-03)
Few studies have investigated the cell mediated immune response during zona pellucida-based immunocontraception, despite hypothesized cytotoxic T-cell involvement in ovarian dysfunction associated with these vaccines. This ...
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Faber, Erika; Tshilwane, Selaelo Ivy; Van Kleef, Mirinda; Pretorius, Alri
(Elsevier, 2022-01)
Expanding on our previous work, this study used transcriptome analysis of RNA sequences to investigate the various factors that contributed to either inducing apoptosis that resulted in cell death or promoting the survival ...
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De Beer, Chantel Janet; Boikanyo, Solomon N.B.; Venter, Gert Johannes; Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes)
(Wiley, 2021-03)
The volume of the blood meal of haematophagous insects will determine the number of infective particles taken up during feeding and may as such denote the minimum dose needed to infect a competent vector. Culicoides midges ...
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Reynecke, Dean Peter; Van Wyk, Jan Aucamp; Gummow, Bruce; Dorny, Pierre; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Elsevier B.V., 2011-05)
Test sensitivity and specificity for the FAMACHA© clinical test for anaemia due to
haemonchosis have previously been shown to be adequate in differentiating between
heavily/less heavily infected sheep, but these properties ...
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Michel, Anita Luise; Cooper, Dave; Jooste, J.; De Klerk-Lorist, Lin Mari; Jolles, Anna E.
(Elsevier, 2010-10)
The application of diagnostic tests for bovine tuberculosis in wildlife poses formidable technical difficulties and the use of the gamma interfer on assay offers a simplified approach to testing wild animal species. We ...
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Guglielmone, Alberto A.; Robbins, Richard G.; Apanaskevich, Dmitry A.; Petney, Trevor N.; Estrada-Pena, Agustín; Horak, Ivan Gerard; Shao, Renfu; Barker, Stephen C.
(Magnolia Press, 2010)
This work is intended as a consensus list of valid tick names, following recent revisionary studies, wherein we recognize 896 species of ticks in 3 families. The Nuttalliellidae is monotypic, containing the single entity ...
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Maas, Miriam; Keet, D.F.; Rutten, Victor P.M.G.; Heesterbeek, J.A.P.; Nielen, Mirjam
(The Royal Society, 2012-08)
Bovine tuberculosis (BTB), caused by Mycobacterium bovis, is a disease that was introduced relatively
recently into the Kruger National Park (KNP) lion population. Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIVple)
is thought to ...
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Maia, Dhéri; Rosalinski-Moraes, Fernanda; Van Wyk, Jan Aucamp; Weber, Saulo; Sotomaior, Cristina Santos
(Elsevier, 2014-02)
The FAMACHA©system is a method for selective anthelmintic treatment comprising earlydetection of haemonchosis in sheep and goats. In order to evaluate the hands-on trainingmethodology and the learning level of the participants, ...
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Adebowale, Oluwawemimo Oluseun; Oduguwa, Adebankemo; Dipeolu, Saheed; Agbaje, Michael; Fasanmi, Olubunmi Gabriel; Fasina, Folorunso Oludayo
(Mary Ann Liebert, 2020-12)
INTRODUCTION : Because of the nature of work conducted in veterinary laboratories and potential exposures to pathogenic microorganisms, good laboratory practices, risk assessments, biosafety, and biosecurity capacity is ...