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Browsing Research Articles (Veterinary Tropical Diseases) by Issue Date
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Odendaal, Lieza; Davis, A. Sally; Venter, Estelle Hildegard
(MDPI, 20-04)
Rift Valley fever phlebovirus (RVFV) infects humans and a wide range of ungulates and
historically has caused devastating epidemics in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Lesions of
naturally infected cases of Rift Valley ...
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Thornton, D.J.; Tustin, R.C.; Pienaar, B.J.teW.N.; Bubb, Hazel D.
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 1975-06)
The transmission of bubonic plague from the kitten of a domestic cat to a man by means of a bite on a finger is described. The human case was complicated by the development of a secondary meningitis, followed, after specific ...
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Baker, Maureen K.
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 1975-09)
The clinical findings and the macroscopic and microscopic lesions in a kitten which died during an outbreak of ulcerative glossitis in a cattery are described. A brief review of the literature is given to support the theory ...
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Button, C.; Imes, G.D.; Liebman, V.A.
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 1975-09)
A case of valvular aortic stenosis in a dog is described. The presenting sign was syncope during exercise. An unusual teature
was a right bundle branch block electrocardiographic pattern. During syncope electrocardiograms ...
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Snijders, A.J.; Horak, Ivan Gerard
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 1975-09)
Anthelmintic efficacy studies involving 49 cattle either naturally or artificially infested with Fasciola hepatica are
described. Some of the animals were also artificially infested with Haemonchus placei and Bunostomum ...
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Van Kleef, Mirinda; Jardine, J.E.; Vogel, S.W.; Van der Lugt, Jaco J.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1995)
An immunohistochemical staining technique in which a monospecific serum was used against the major antigenic protein-1 (MAP-1) of Cowdria ruminantium, was evaluated for the detection of C. ruminantium
in formalin-fixed ...
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Michel, Anita Luise; Bengis, Roy G.; Keet, D.F.; Hofmeyr, Markus; De Klerk-Lorist, Lin Mari; Cross, Paul C.; Jolles, Anna E.; Cooper, Dave; Whyte, I.J.; Buss, Peter Erik; Godfroid, Jacques
(Elsevier, 2006)
Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium bovis, was first diagnosed in African buffalo in South Africa's Kruger National Park in 1990. Over the past 15 years the disease has spread northwards leaving only the most northern ...
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Penzhorn, Barend Louis
(Elsevier, 2006)
Although large and small piroplasms have been reported from various wild carnivore and ungulate species, relatively few have been named. In the past, mere presence of a piroplasm in a specific host frequently prompted ...
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Parsons, S.D.C.; Penzhorn, Barend Louis; Reyers, Fred; Steyl, Johan Christian Abraham; Becker, Piet J.
(Elsevier, 2006)
Neonatal, poikilocytic anaemia in some members of the Hippotragini has previously been documented but not fully investigated. This study was undertaken to describe the erythrocyte morphology of roan antelopes (Hippotragus ...
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Penzhorn, Barend Louis; Schoeman, Tanya; Jacobson, Linda S.
(Japanese Society of Veterinary Parasitology, 2006)
Babesia felis originally described from wild cats in the Sudan was subsequently incriminated as causing clinical disease
in domestic cats. Although babesiosis in domestic cats has been reported sporadically from various ...
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Molad, T.; Mazuz, M.L.; Fleiderovitz, L.; Fish, Lyn; Savitsky, I.; Krigel, Y.; Leibovitz, B.; Molloy, J.; Jongejan, Frans; Shkap, Varda
(Elsevier, 2006)
A reverse line blot hybridization (RLB) one-stage nested PCR (nPCR) for Anaplasma centrale and a nested PCR for Anaplasma marginale were used to detect infected cattle grazing within an endemic region in Israel. A novel ...
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Nijhof, Ard M.; Taoufik, Amar; De la Fuente, Jose; Kocan, Katherine M.; De Vries, Erik; Jongejan, Frans
(Elsevier, 2006-05)
The use of RNA interference (RNAi) to assess gene function has been demonstrated in several three-host tick species but adaptation of RNAi to the one-host tick, Boophilus microplus, has not been reported. We evaluated the ...
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Kubi, C.; Van den Abbeele, Jan; De Deken, Reginald; Marcotty, Tanguy; Dorny, Pierre; Van den Bossche, Peter
(Blackwell, 2006-12)
Transmission of vector-borne diseases depends largely on the ability of the insect vector to become infected with the parasite. In tsetse flies, newly emerged or teneral flies are considered the most likely to develop a ...
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Allsopp, M.T.E.P.; Van Strijp, M.F.; Faber, F.E.; Josemans, A.I.; Allsopp, Basil A.
(Elsevier, 2007-02)
In 1994 a batch of apparently healthy goats was selected for intended export to the USA from a heartwater-free and vector tick-free region of South Africa. The animals were tested serologically for heartwater, using either ...
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Olwoch, Jane Mukarugwiza; Van Jaarsveld, A.S.; Scholtz, Clarke H.; Horak, Ivan Gerard
(Agricultural Research Council, ARC-OVI and the University of Pretoria, 2007-03)
The suitability of present and future climates for 30 Rhipicephalus species in Africa are predicted using a simple climate envelope model as well as a Division of Atmospheric Research Limited-Area Model (DARLAM). DARLAM's ...
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Matjila, Paul Tshepo; Penzhorn, Barend Louis; Leisewitz, Andrew L.; Bhoora, Raksha Vasantrai; Barker, R.
(South African Veterinary Association, 2007-03)
Please refer to abstract in article
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Nyangiwe, Nkululeko; Horak, Ivan Gerard
(Agricultural Research Council, ARC-OVI and the University of Pretoria, 2007-03)
The objective of this study was to compare the presence on goats and cattle of adult ticks that usually infest cattle. To this end ticks collected from sets of five goats were compared with those collected from sets of ...
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Mbao, V.; Berkvens, Dirk; Dorny, Pierre; Van den Bossche, Peter; Marcotty, Tanguy
(Agricultural Research Council, ARC-OVI and the University of Pretoria, 2007-03)
Stabilates of Theileria parva sporozoites are mostly delivered in liquid nitrogen tanks to the East
Coast fever immunization points. Using an in vitro titration model, we assessed the loss of infectivity
of several ...
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Golezardy, Habib; Horak, Ivan Gerard
(Agricultural Research Council, ARC-OVI and the University of Pretoria, 2007-03)
The objective of this study was to make an inventory of the ixodid tick species infesting wild animals in three western, semi-arid nature reserves in South Africa. To this end 22 animals in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, ...
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Pretorius, Alri; Collins, Nicola E.; Steyn, H.C.; Van Strijp, M.F.; Van Kleef, Mirinda; Allsopp, Basil A.
(Elsevier, 2007-03-08)
We have reported previously that a recombinant DNA vaccine consisting of four Ehrlichia ruminantium (Welgevonden) open reading frames (ORFs) known as the 1H12 cocktail provided protection against a virulent E. ruminantium ...