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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Veterinary Tropical Diseases) by Title
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Nogwebela, Nomathamsanqa
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
Brucella abortus, a major cause of bovine brucellosis, is a facultative intracellular, gram-negative pathogen that infects mammals by replicating inside phagocytic cells of the reticulo-endothelial system and in trophoblastic ...
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Sandengu, George Tapiwa
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
Bovine brucellosis is a worldwide, zoonotic infection caused by Brucella species bacteria and characterised by abortions and retained placentae in cows and, to a lesser extent, orchitis in bulls. The disease is a zoonotic ...
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Mpofu, Dumakude
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
There has been an increase in the herd prevalence of brucellosis in cattle in Gauteng, especially among smallholder herds. This study was undertaken to provide information on the distribution, nature and farm behavior of ...
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Henwood, Vincent Charl
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
A risk assessment was conducted for Salmonella enteritidis (SE) in the broiler production chain of the Western Cape of South Africa, using a literature review, historical data analysis, microbiological sampling from abattoirs ...
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Van den Hurk, Shaun Steven
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
As external parasites of livestock, ticks of the genus Amblyomma have a significant impact on animal health and production globally. Furthermore, Amblyomma ticks are vectors of diseases affecting livestock, but humans as ...
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Cilliers, Maruchelle
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
The tragelaphine antelopes comprise a group of nine species, namely Tragelaphus eurycerus (bongo), Tragelaphus scriptus (bushbuck), Tragelaphus oryx (common eland), Tragelaphus derbianus (giant eland), Tragelaphus strepsiceros ...
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Smit, Andeliza
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
Tabanidae (Diptera) is a diverse haematophagous fly family, known to transmit over 35 livestock pathogens both mechanically and biologically. Kruger National Park (KNP) (in Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces), South Africa, ...
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Malan, Ros Catherine
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
A study was conducted (November 2012) on the communal dipping system in Mnisi, Mpumalanga Province of South Africa to detect levels of blue tick resistance to commonly used acaricides. The larvae obtained from engorged ...
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Shacklock, Caryn
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
This project was conducted in order to ascertain the presence or absence of acaricide resistance in ticks in an area of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) where tick-borne diseases pose a real and dire threat to communal and commercial ...
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Mekonnen, Sileshi
(University of Pretoria, 2006-03-29)
Tick resistance to acaricides is an increasing problem in South Africa and poses a real economic threat to the livestock and veterinary pharmaceutical industries. New acaricides are extremely expensive to develop so the ...
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Veto, Thando
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) are efficient maintenance hosts of three serotypes of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus in South Africa, namely the South African Territories (SAT) types 1-3 viruses. Of these, the SAT-1 ...
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Weyer, Camilla Theresa
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
African horse sickness (AHS) is a life-threatening disease of equids caused by African horse
sickness virus (AHSV), a member of the genus Orbivirus in the family Reoviridae. The virus
is transmitted by midges (Culicoides ...
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Weyer, Camilla Theresa
(University of Pretoria, 2010)
African horse sickness (AHS) is a life threatening disease of equids caused by African horse sickness virus (AHSV), a member of the genus Orbivirus in the family Reoviridae. The virus is transmitted to horses by midges ...
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Spargo, Reverend Moregood
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
Cattle ticks from the genus Rhipicephalus are hematophagous ectoparasites of great
veterinary and economic importance. Currently, the main method for managing ticks
and tick-borne diseases is the application of chemical ...
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Wolfaard, Graeme
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
Rangeland health plays an important role in increasing the connectivity/contact between wildlife, livestock and people. Communal rangelands throughout the savanna areas of South Africa are experiencing increasing magnitudes ...
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Keokilwe, Leruo Tego
(University of Pretoria, 2013)
Ostrich (Struthio camelus) chicks less than three months of age are observed to experience a high mortality rate of 30-40% that is often associated with enteritis. In the event of a disease outbreak mortality can reach ...
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Conradie van Wyk, Ilana
(University of Pretoria, 2012-09-21)
This study formed part of the collaborative IDEAL (Infectious Diseases of East African Livestock) project, which focused on the sedentary mixed crop-livestock smallholding system in Western Kenya. This was a longitudinal ...
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Manyetu, Kramer
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
Animal diseases have always been one of the main constraints on animal production, especially in Africa where there are a variety of tropical and subtropical diseases. Knowledge of these diseases and the development of ...
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Khumalo, Zamantungwa Thobeka Happiness
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
In summary, this study presents a novel genetic test based on msp1aS to discriminate strains of A. centrale and shows that the vaccine strain is found widely distributed across South Africa and in animals that do not have ...
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Spickett, Andrea
(University of Pretoria, 2010-03-12)
A field trial was conducted to test the anthelmintic effect of a single dose of 4g of copper oxide wire particles (COWP) in bolus form in indigenous goats belonging to small scale communal farmers in three areas in the ...