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  • A live weight–heart girth relationship for accurate dosing of east African shorthorn zebu cattle
    Lesosky, Maia; Dumas, Sarah; Conradie, Ilana; Handel, Ian Graham; Jennings, Amy; Thumbi, Samuel; Toye, Phillip; De Clare Bronsvoort, Barend Mark (Springer, 2013)
    The accurate estimation of livestock weights is important for many aspects of livestock management including nutrition, production and appropriate dosing of pharmaceuticals. Subtherapeutic dosing has been shown to ...
  • Efficacy of an imidacloprid/flumethrin collar against fleas, ticks, mites and lice on dogs
    Stanneck, Dorothee; Kruedewagen, Eva M.; Fourie, Josephus J.; Horak, Ivan Gerard; Davis, Wendell; Krieger, Klemens J. (BioMed Central, 2012-05-30)
    BACKGROUND: The studies reported here were conducted to ascertain the efficacy of imidacloprid/flumethrin incorporated in a slow-release matrix collar, against infestations of dogs by fleas, ticks, mites and lice. Efficacy ...
  • Seasonal differences in cytokine expression in the skin of Shetland ponies suffering from insect bite hypersensitivity
    Meulenbroeks, C.; Van der Meide, N.M.A.; Zaiss, D.M.W.; Sloet van Oldruitenborgh-Oosterbaan, M.M.; Van der Lugt, J.J.; Smak, J.; Rutten, Victor P.M.G.; Willemse, T. (Elsevier, 2013-01)
    Insect bite hypersensitivity (IBH) in horses is a seasonal, IgE-mediated, pruritic skin disorder primarily caused by Culicoides spp. We hypothesize that a mixed Th2/Th1-type immune status, off season, alters into ...
  • Tick cell culture isolation and growth of Rickettsia raoultii from Dutch Dermacentor reticulatus ticks
    Alberdi, M. Pilar; Nijhof, Ard M.; Jongejan, Frans; Bell-Sakyi, Lesley (Elsevier, 2012-12)
    Tick cell lines play an important role in research on ticks and tick-borne pathogenic and symbiotic microorganisms. In an attempt to derive continuous Dermacentor reticulatus cell lines, embryo-derived primary cell ...
  • Virus nomenclature below the species level : a standardized nomenclature for laboratory animal-adapted strains and variants of viruses assigned to the family Filoviridae
    Kuhn, Jens H.; Bao, Yiming; Bavari, Sina; Becker, Stephan; Bradfute, Steven; Britser, J. Rodney; Bukreyev, Alexander A.; Caì, Yíngyún; Chandran, Kartik; Davey, Robert A.; Dolnik, Olga; Dye, John M.; Enterlein, Sven; Gonzalez, Jean-Paul; Formenty, Pierre; Freiberg, Alexander N.; Hensley, Lisa E.; Honko, Anna N.; Ignatyev, Georgy M.; Jahrling, Peter B.; Johnson, Karl M.; Klenk, Hans-Dieter; Kobinger, Gary; Lackemeyer, Matthew G.; Leroy, Eric M.; Lever, Mark S.; Lofts, Loreen L.; Mühlberger, Elke; Netesov, Sergey V.; Olinger, Gene G.; Palacios, Gustavo; Patterson, Jean L.; Paweska, Janusz T.; Pitt, Louise; Radoshitzky, Sheli R.; Ryabchikova, Elena I.; Saphire, Erica O.; Shestopalov, Aleksandr M.; Smither, Sophie J.; Sullivan, Nancy J.; Swanepoel, Robert; Takada, Ayato; Towner, Jonathan S.; Van der Groen, Guido; Volchkov, Viktor E.; Wahl-Jensen, Victoria; Warren, Travis K.; Warfield, Kelly L.; Weidmann, Manfred; Nichol, Stuart T. (Spinger, 2013-01)
    The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) organizes the classification of viruses into taxa, but is not responsible for the nomenclature for taxa members. International experts groups, such as the ICTV ...