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(University of Pretoria, 2013-07)The genus Lyssavirus, currently consisting of 12 confirmed and two putative species, all of which are capable of producing the lethal encephalitic disease known as rabies. Due to the long history and common knowledge of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)The etiological agent of rabies, rabies virus, is a member of the fatal Lyssavirus genus that accounts for the death of more than 55 000 humans per annum, with the number of infected animals far exceeding that number. The ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)The severe acute respiratory disease syndrome or SARS epidemic emerged in Hong Kong, China, in 2002 with a mortality rate of 15%. The etiological agent for SARS was identified to be a previously unrecognized coronavirus ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-09)In past years, the potential of bats as reservoir for paramyxoviruses was clearly underestimated. Research of the 21st century now provides evidence that bats play an important role as reservoir and host to these viruses. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)In Africa, bats have been implicated in a number of emerging and re-emerging diseases, mostly associated with viral infections – such as caused by rabies-related lyssaviruses, paramyxoviruses and coronaviruses. Whereas ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Lassa virus (LASV) forms part of the mammarenavirus genus from the Arenaviridae family and is the arenavirus with the most significant public health impact. It is endemic to West Africa as one of seven mammarenaviruses ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)Nucleic acid diagnostic tests can complement existing tools to improve the diagnosis of diseases. However, the requirement of laboratory infrastructure limits their use in developing countries as routine tests. Isothermal ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-10-08)The etiological agent of rabies encephalitis belongs to the genus Lyssavirus in the Rhabdoviridae family. Lyssaviruses are negative sense, single stranded RNA viruses and cause an estimated 55 000 human deaths per year ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-09-27)In the fight against endemic infectious diseases – which disproportionately affect the developing world – the effective use of scarce resources is of paramount importance. For vaccine preventable diseases, vaccination ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-06-28)The genus Alphavirus in the family Togaviridae consists of approximately 30 single stranded, positive-sense RNA viruses which cause diseases ranging from mild, febrile illness with rash and arthritis to life-threatening ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-02-21)Duvenhage virus (DUVV) belongs to genotype (gt) 4 of the lyssavirus genus, in the family Rhabdoviridae, order Mononegavirales. This virus causes fatal rabies encephalitis and has only been reported from the African continent. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-09-23)Rabies is a neurological disease caused by viruses of the genus Lyssavirus belonging to the family Rhabdoviridae and order Mononegavirales. The Lyssavirus genus consists of eleven species namely rabies virus; Lagos bat ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-12-09)The Lyssavirus genus currently consists of eleven species of which four has been isolated in Africa [(Rabies virus (RABV), Lagos bat virus (LBV), Mokola virus (MOKV) and Duvenhage virus (DUVV)]. RABV occurs worldwide and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-08-19)West Nile virus (WNV) belongs to the Flaviviridae family, a virus family of which many members are known as human pathogens. WNV has a worldwide distribution and strains that cluster in lineage II is endemic to sub-Saharan ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-03-01)The African continent sustains a variety of lyssaviruses and this study focused on two of these lyssaviruses that are unique to the continent namely rabies virus mongoose biotype and Mokola virus (MOKV). Rabies virus (RABV) ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-05-26)Human rabies is a zoonotic viral disease that affects thousands of people worldwide, especially in the developing countries of Africa and Asia. There are two distinct biotypes of lyssavirus genotype 1 circulating in South ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Marburg virus (MARV) is a zoonotic virus of significant potential public health concern in Africa. Together with Ebola virus (EBOV), MARV belongs to the family Filoviridae and causes a life-threatening haemorrhagic disease ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Lagos bat virus (LBV) is a phylogroup II lyssavirus exclusively found in Africa. Previous studies have shown that this virus is lethal to mice after intracranial (i.c.) and intramuscular (i.m.) inoculation. Pathogenicity ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-12-14)Rabies virus (RABV) primarily infects carnivorous terrestrial mammals in Africa. However, in 1977 the first epidemic of rabies in kudu occurred in Namibia. Due to the excessive spread and deaths of kudu, it was suggested ...
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Small-scale movements and foraging areas of Rousettus aegyptiacus in Limpopo Province, South Africa (University of Pretoria, 2023)Movement is an integral component within the animal kingdom as species respond to internal and external stimuli to ensure their survival. As animals move, they interact with the environment in different ways that help to ...
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