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Browsing Veterinary Science by UP Author "Coetzer, Jacobus A.W."
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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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Toye, Philip G.; Batten, C.A.; Kiara, Henry; Henstock, M.R.; Edwards, L.; Thumbi, Samuel Mwangi; Poole, Elizabeth Jane; Handel, Ian Graham; Bronsvoort, Barend Mark de Clare; Hanotte, Olivier; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Woolhouse, Mark E.J.; Oura, C.A.L. (Elsevier, 2013-03)The presence of bluetongue virus (BTV) and Epizootic Haemorrhagic Disease virus (EHDV) in indigenous calves in western Kenya was investigated. Serum was analysed for BTV and EHDV antibodies. The population seroprevalences ...
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Fafetine, Jose Manuel; Tijhaar, Edwin; Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Neves, L.C.B.G.D. (Luís); Hendriks, Judith; Swanepoel, Robert; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Egberink, Herman F.; Rutten, Victor P.M.G. (Elsevier, 2007-03-31)Serodiagnosis of Rift Valley fever (RVF) currently relies on the use of live or inactivated whole virus as antigens. The recombinant nucleocapsid (N) protein of RVF virus was tested for diagnostic applicability in an ...
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Lubinga, Jimmy Clement; Clift, Sarah Jane; Tuppurainen, Eeva S.M.; Stoltsz, Wilhelm Heinrich; Babiuk, Shawn; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Venter, Estelle Hildegard (Elsevier, 2014-03)Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is caused by lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV), a member of the genus Capripoxvirus. Transmission of the virus has been associated with haematophagous insects such as Stomoxys calcitrans as well ...
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Njiiri, Evalyne Nyawira; Bronsvoort, Barend Mark de Clare; Collins, Nicola E.; Steyn, Helena C.; Troskie, Milana; Vorster, Ilse; Mwangi, Thumbi S.; Sibeko-Matjila, Kgomotso Penelope; Jennings, Amy; Van Wyk, Ilana; Mbole-Kariuki, Mary Ndila; Kiara, Henry; Poole, Jane; Hanotte, Olivier; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Oosthuizen, Marinda C.; Woolhouse, Mark E.J.; Toye, Philip G. (Elsevier, 2015-05)The development of sensitive surveillance technologies using PCR-based detection ofmicrobial DNA, such as the reverse line blot assay, can facilitate the gathering of epidemi-ological information on tick-borne diseases, ...
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Lubinga, Jimmy Clement; Tuppurainen, Eeva S.M.; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Stoltsz, Wilhelm Heinrich; Venter, Estelle Hildegard (Springer, 2014-01)Lumpy skin disease is a debilitating cattle disease caused by the lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV), belonging to the genus Capripoxvirus. Epidemics of the disease usually occur in summer, when insect activity is high. ...
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Tuppurainen, Eeva S.M.; Lubinga, Jimmy Clement; Stoltsz, Wilhelm Heinrich; Troskie, Milana; Carpenter, Simon T.; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Venter, Estelle Hildegard; Oura, Chris A.L. (Elsevier, 2013)Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is an economically important acute or sub-acute disease of cattle that occurs across Africa and in the Middle East. The aim of this study was to assess whether Rhipicephalus decoloratus ticks ...
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Fafetine, Jose Manuel; Domingos, Ana; Antunes, Sandra; Esteves, Aida; Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Rutten, Victor P.M.G.; Neves, L.C.B.G.D. (Luís) (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-11)Due to the unpredictable and explosive nature of Rift Valley fever (RVF) outbreaks, rapid and accurate diagnostic assays for low-resource settings are urgently needed. To improve existing diagnostic assays, monoclonal ...
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Murray, Gemma G.R.; Woolhouse, Mark E.J.; Tapio, Miika; Mbole-Kariuki, Mary Ndila; Sonstegard, Tad S.; Thumbi, Samuel Mwangi; Jennings, Amy; Conradie van Wyk, Ilana; Chase-Topping, Margo; Kiara, Henry; Toye, Philip G.; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Bronsvoort, Barend Mark de Clare; Hanotte, Olivier (BioMed Central, 2013-11-09)BACKGROUND: Positive multi-locus heterozygosity-fitness correlations have been observed in a number of natural populations. They have been explained by the correlation between heterozygosity and inbreeding, and the negative ...
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Mbole-Kariuki, M.N.; Sonstegard, T.; Orth, A.; Thumbi, S.M.; Bronsvoort, B.M.deC.; Kiara, H.; Toye, P.; Conradie Van Wyk, Ilana; Jennings, A.; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Woolhouse, M.E.J.; Hanotte, O.; Tapio, M. (Nature Publishing Group, 2014)The Kenyan East African zebu cattle are valuable and widely used genetic resources. Previous studies using microsatellite loci revealed the complex history of these populations with the presence of taurine and zebu genetic ...
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Conradie van Wyk, Ilana; Goddard, Amelia; Bronsvoort, Barend Mark de Clare; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Booth, C.; Hanotte, Olivier; Jennings, Amy; Kiara, Henry; Mashego, P.; Muller, Carien; Pretorius, G.; Poole, E.M.; Thumbi, Samuel Mwangi; Toye, Philip G.; Woolhouse, Mark E.J.; Penzhorn, Barend Louis (Springer, 2013-09)This paper is the first attempt to accurately describe the hematological parameters for any African breed of cattle, by capturing the changes in these parameters over the first 12 months of an animal’s life using a ...
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Callaby, Rebecca; Pendarovski, Cezar; Jennings, Amy; Mwangi, Samuel Thumbi; Van Wyk, Ilana; Mbole-Kariuki, Mary; Kiara, Henry; Toye, Philip G.; Kemp, Steve; Hanotte, Olivier; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Handel, Ian G.; Woolhouse, Mark E.J.; De Clare Bronsvoort, Barend Mark (Nature Publishing Group, 2020-07-09)The Infectious Diseases of East African Livestock (IDEAL) project was a longitudinal cohort study of calf health which was conducted in Western Kenya between 2007–2010. A total of 548 East African shorthorn zebu calves ...
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Conradie van Wyk, Ilana; Goddard, Amelia; Bronsvoort, Barend Mark de Clare; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Handel, Ian Graham; Hanotte, Olivier; Jennings, Amy; Lesosky, Maia; Kiara, Henry; Thumbi, Samuel Mwangi; Toye, Philip G.; Woolhouse, Mark W.; Penzhorn, Barend Louis (Cambridge University Press, 2014)The cumulative effect of co-infections between pathogen pairs on the haematological response of East African Short-horn Zebu calves is described. Using a longitudinal study design a stratified clustered random sample of ...
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Mapaco, Lourenco Paulo; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Venter, Estelle Hildegard (OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-10-04)In 2008, a suspected outbreak of Rift Valley fever (RVF) was reported on a farm in the Bela-Bela area, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Seven calves died on the affected dairy farm, where no RVF vaccination programme was ...
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Kiara, Henry; Jennings, Amy; Bronsvoort, Barend Mark de Clare; Handel, Ian Graham; Mwangi, Samuel Thumbi; Mbole-Kariuki, Mary Ndila; Van Wyk, Conradie; Poole, Elizabeth Jane; Hanotte, Olivier; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Woolhouse, Mark E.J.; Toye, Philip G. (Cambridge University Press, 2014-05)Tick-borne diseases are a major impediment to improved productivity of livestock in sub-Saharan Africa. Improved control of these diseases would be assisted by detailed epidemiological data. Herewe used longitudinal, ...
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Tuppurainen, Eeva S.M.; Venter, Estelle Hildegard; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Bell-Sakyi, Lesley (Elsevier, 2015-03)Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is of substantial economic importance for the cattle industry in Africa and the Near and Middle East. Several insect species are thought to transmit the disease mechanically. Recent transmission ...
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Toye, Philip; Handel, Ian; Gray, Julia; Kiara, Henry; Thumbi, Samuel; Jennings, Amy; Conradie Van Wyk, Ilana; Ndila, Mary; Hanotte, Olivier; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Woolhouse, Mark; Bronsvoort, Mark (Elsevier, 2013-09)The passive transfer of antibodies from dams to offspring via colostrum is believed to play an important role in protecting neonatal mammals from infectious disease. The study presented here investigates the uptake of ...
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Tappurainen, E.S.M.; Lubinga, Jimmy Clement; Stoltsz, Wilhelm Heinrich; Troskie, Milana; Carpenter, S.T.; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Venter, Estelle Hildegard; Oura, C.A.L. (Cambridge University Press, 2013)Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is an economically important, acute or sub-acute, viral disease of cattle that occurs across Africa and in the Middle East. The aim of this study was to investigate if lumpy skin disease virus ...
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Thumbi, Samuel Mwangi; Bronsvoort, Barend Mark de Clare; Kiara, Henry; Toye, Philip G.; Poole, Jane; Ndila, Mary; Conradie, Ilana; Jennings, Amy; Handel, Ian Graham; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Steyl, Johan Christian Abraham; Hanotte, Olivier (BioMed Central, 2013-09-08)BACKGROUND: Infectious livestock diseases remain a major threat to attaining food security and are a source of economic and livelihood losses for people dependent on livestock for their livelihood. Knowledge of the ...
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Thumbi, Samuel Mwangi; Bronsvoort, Barend Mark de Clare; Poole, Elizabeth Jane; Kiara, Henry; Toye, Philip G.; Mbole-Kariuki, Mary Ndila; Conradie, Ilana; Jennings, Amy; Handel, Ian Graham; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Steyl, Johan Christian Abraham; Hanotte, Olivier; Woolhouse, Mark E.J. (Public Library of Science, 2014-02-20)In natural populations, individuals may be infected with multiple distinct pathogens at a time. These pathogens may act independently or interact with each other and the host through various mechanisms, with resultant ...
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