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Wang, Lihua; Ganges, Llilianne; Dixon, Linda K.; Bu, Zhigao; Zhao, Dongming; Quang Lam Truong; Richt, Juergen A.; Jin, Meilin; Netherton, Christopher L.; Benarafa, Charaf; Summerfield, Artur; Weng, Changjiang; Peng, Guiqing; Reis, Ana L.; Han, Jun; Penrith, Mary-Louise; Mo, Yupeng; Su, Zhipeng; Hoang, Dang Vu; Pogranichniy, Roman M.; Balaban-Oglan, David-Adrian; Li, Yuzhen; Wang, Kewen; Cai, Xuepeng; Shi, Jishu (MDPI, 2024-01)The 2023 International African Swine Fever Workshop (IASFW) took place in Beijing, China, on 18–20 September 2023. It was jointly organized by the U.S.-China Center for Animal Health (USCCAH) at Kansas State University ...
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Penrith, Mary-Louise (Agricultural Research Council, ARC-OVI and the University of Pretoria, 2009-03)African swine fever (ASF) is a devastating haemorrhagic fever of pigs that causes up to 100 % mortality, for which there is no vaccine. It is caused by a unique DNA virus that is maintained in an ancient cycle between ...
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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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Braae, U.C.; Penrith, Mary-Louise; Ngowi, H.A.; Lekule, F.; Johansen, M.V. (Universities Federation for Animal Welfare, 2016)The aim of this study was to assess smallholder farmer awareness in terms of good pig management and to identify serious management issues that should be readily changeable despite resources being limited in a rural ...
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Thomson, G.R. (Gavin); Penrith, Mary-Louise; Atkinson, M.W.; Atkinson, S.J.; Cassidy, D.; Osofsky, S.A. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-12)Biodiversity conservation, of which the transfrontier conservation area movement is an integral part, and more effective livestock production/trade are pivotal to future rural development in southern Africa. For that ...
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Penrith, Mary-Louise; Vosloo, Wilna; Mather, Charles (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-06)Classical swine fever (CSF) has the ability to spread over large distances when human intervention, such as illegal swill feeding facilitates its movement. This was apparent during 2005 when CSF appeared in South Africa ...
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Penrith, Mary-Louise (BMC, 2020)African swine fever is a serious viral disease of domestic pigs and Eurasian wild boars that poses a major threat to pig production. For more than thirty years after its discovery in East Africa it was limited to eastern ...
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Penrith, Mary-Louise; Depner, Klaus; Jor, Ferran; Dione, Michel; Alders, Robyn; Chenais, Erika (Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-04-26)No abstract available.
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Thomson, G.R. (Gavin); Fosgate, Geoffrey Theodore; Penrith, Mary-Louise (Wiley, 2015)A matrix system was developed to aid in the evaluation of the technical amenability to eradication, through mass vaccination, of transboundary animal diseases (TADs). The system involved evaluation of three basic criteria ...
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Evaluation of a virus neutralisation test for detection of Rift Valley fever antibodies in Suid Sera Lubisi, Baratang Alison; Ndouvhada, Phumudzo N.; Neiffer, Donald; Penrith, Mary-Louise; Sibanda, Donald Ray; Bastos, Armanda D.S. (MDPI Publishing, 2019-03-25)Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a vector-borne viral disease of ruminants mainly, and man, characterized by abortions and neonatal deaths in animals and flu-like to more severe symptoms that can result in death in humans. The ...
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Penrith, Mary-Louise; Bezuidenhout, A.J. (Abraham Johannes), 1942-; Burger, W.P.; Putterill, John Fraser; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand (Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1994)Cloacas of male ostrich chicks that had suffered prolapse of the phallus and cloaca were compared with cloacas of normal ostrich chicks of both sexes from the same area. Heavy infection of the cloacal and bursal tissue ...
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Busch, Frank; Haumont, Celine; Penrith, Mary-Louise; Laddomada, Alberto; Dietze, Klaas; Globig, Anja; Guberti, Vittorio; Zani, Laura; Depner, Klaus (Frontiers Media, 2021-03-24)African swine fever (ASF) is one of the most threatening diseases for the pig farming sector worldwide. Prevention, control and eradication remain a challenge, especially in the absence of an effective vaccine or cure ...
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Lubisi, Baratang Alison; Mutowembwa, Paidamwoyo Barry; Ndouvhada, Phumudzo Nomicia; Odendaal, Lieza; Bastos, Armanda; Penrith, Mary-Louise (MDPI, 2023-02)Rift valley fever (RVF), caused by the RVF virus (RVFV), is a vector-borne zoonotic disease that primarily affects domestic ruminants. Abortion storms and neonatal deaths characterise the disease in animals. Humans develop ...
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Exploring the hurdles that remain for control of African swine fever in smallholder farming settings Chenais, Erika; Depner, Klaus; Ebata, Ayako; Penrith, Mary-Louise; Pfeiffer, Dirk U.; Price, Cortney; Stahl, Karl; Fischer, Klara (Wiley, 2022-09)To honour the 100 years anniversary of the first publication about African swine fever (ASF) a webinar with a particular focus on disease control in the smallholder sector was organized. This article is based on the webinar, ...
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Scoones, Ian; Bishi, Alec; Mapitse, Neo; Moerane, Rebone; Penrith, Mary-Louise; Sibanda, Ronny; Thomson, G.R. (Gavin); Wolmer, William (Practical Action, 2010-07)Focusing on the case of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in southern Africa – and specifi cally Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe – this paper explores the economic, social and political trade-offs arising from ...
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Johansen, Maria Vang; Penrith, Mary-Louise (Public Library of Science, 2009-10-27)No abstract available.
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Penrith, Mary-Louise (OpenJournals Publishing, 2013-11-29)The histories of the two swine fevers in southern Africa differ widely. Classical swine fever (hog cholera) has been known in the northern hemisphere since 1830 and it is probable that early cases of ‘swine fever’ in ...
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Thomson, G.R. (Gavin); Penrith, Mary-Louise; Atkinson, M.W.; Thalwitzer, S.; Mancuso, A.; Atkinson, S.J.; Osofsky, S.A. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-12)A case is made for greater emphasis to be placed on value chain management as an alternative to geographically based disease risk mitigation for trade in commodities and products derived from animals. The geographic ...
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