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Shereni, William; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G.; Argilés, Rafael; Nyakupinda, Learnmore; Cecchi, Giuliano (BMC, 2021-01)BACKGROUND: In the 1980s and 1990s, great strides were taken towards the elimination of tsetse and animal African trypanosomiasis (AAT) in Zimbabwe. However, advances in recent years have been limited. Previously freed ...
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Fafetine, Jose Manuel; Tijhaar, Edwin; Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G.; 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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Boulange, Alain; Lejon, Veerle; Berthier, David; Thevenon, Sophie; Gimonneau, Geoffrey; Desquesnes, Marc; Abah, Samuel; Agboho, Prudenciene; Chilongo, Kalinga; Gebre, Tsegaye; Fall, Assane Gueye; Kaba, Dramane; Magez, Stefan; Masiga, Daniel; Matovu, Enock; Moukhtar, Aldjibert; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G.; Olet, Pamela A.; Pagabeleguem, Soumaïla; Shereni, William; Sorli, Brice; Taioe, Moeti O.; Junco, Maria Teresa Tejedor; Yagi, Rehab; Solano, Philippe; Cecchi, Giuliano (Taylor and Francis, 2022)Vector-borne diseases affecting livestock have serious impacts in Africa. Trypanosomosis is caused by parasites transmitted by tsetse flies and other blood-sucking Diptera. The animal form of the disease is a scourge for ...
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De Matos, Carlos Antonio; Sitoe, C.; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G.; Nothling, Johan Oliviette; Horak, Ivan Gerard (Agricultural Research Council, ARC-OVI and the University of Pretoria, 2009-06)This study compares the prevalence of ixodid tick species on cattle and goats in Maputo Province. Adult ticks as well as the nymphs of three species, and only the adults of two species were collected from sets of five ...
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Rodrigues, Adriana C.; Ortiz, Paola A.; Costa-Martins, André G.; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G.; Garcia, Herakles A.; Alves, João M.P.; Camargo, Erney P.; Alfieri, Silvia C.; Gibson, Wendy; Teixeira, Marta M.G. (Elsevier, 2014-04)Trypanosoma congolense is the most important agent of nagana, a wasting livestock trypanosomosis in sub-Saharan Africa. This species is a complex of three subgroups (Savannah, Forest and Kilifi) that differ in virulence, ...
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Gstottenmayer, Fabian; Moyaba, Percy; Rodriguez, Montse; Mulandane, Fernando C.; Mucache, Hermogenes N.; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G.; De Beer, Chantel; Ravel, Sophie; De Meeus, Thierry; Mach, Robert L.; Vreysen, Marc J.B.; Abd-Alla, Adly M.M. (EDP Open, 2023-09)Tsetse flies, the vectors of African trypanosomes are of key medical and economic importance and one of the constraints for the development of Africa. Tsetse fly control is one of the most effective and sustainable strategies ...
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Mnkandla, Samantha; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G.; Vorster, Ilse; Bhoora, Raksha (MDPI, 2022-01-22)African animal trypanosomosis (AAT), is an infectious parasitic disease of wildlife and livestock caused by multiple species and strains of Trypanosoma. In South Africa, it is restricted to northern KwaZulu-Natal (NKZN) ...
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De Beer, Chantel J.; Dicko, Ahmadou H.; Ntshangase, Jerome; Moyaba, Percy; Taioe, Moeti O.; Mulandane, Fernando C.; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G.; Mdluli, Sihle; Guerrini, Laure; Bouyer, Jeremy; Vreysen, Marc J.B.; Venter, Gert Johannes (Public Library of Science, 2021-11-29)BACKGROUND : Glossina austeni and Glossina brevipalpis (Diptera: Glossinidae) are the sole cyclical vectors of African trypanosomes in South Africa, Eswatini and southern Mozambique. These populations represent the ...
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Van den Bossche, Peter; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G.; Sigauque, I.; Moiana, M.; Jamal, S.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand (Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute ., 2000)A tsetse and bovine trypanosomosis survey was conducted during 1998 and 1999 in the Matutuine District of Maputo Province (Mozambique). A total of 59 Glossina brevipalpis and 17 Glossina austeni were captured throughout ...
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Cangi, Nidia; Pinarello, Valerie; Bournez, Laure; Lefrancois, Thierry; Albina, Emmanuel; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G.; Vachiery, Nathalie (BioMed Central, 2017-11-13)BACKGROUND : Ehrlichia ruminantium is the causal agent of heartwater, a fatal tropical disease affecting ruminants with important economic impacts. This bacterium is transmitted by Amblyomma ticks and is present in ...
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Taviani, Elisa; Cappuccinelli, Piero; Colombo, Mauro; Cirillo, Tiziano; Neves, L.C.B.G.D. (Luís); Saide, Joaquim; Attorre, Fabio (Springer, 2023-03)Mozambique and Italy share a history of academic cooperation spanning almost half a century. The topical collection “Environment, biodiversity and health in university scientific cooperation in Mozambique” stems from the ...
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Williams, Kirstin A.; Smit, Andeliza; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G.; Snyman, Louwtjie P. (Elsevier, 2022-02)The Afrotropical fly genus, Atylotus has previously shown little differentiation into species groups using the barcode gene COI. This study analysed all available Atylotus COI sequences from GenBank and BOLD to determine ...
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Samkange, Alaster; Chitanga, Simbarashe; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G.; Matjila, Tshepo (Springer, 2023-02)This study assessed the knowledge, attitudes and practices of livestock farmers in Namibia’s Khomas region and animal health practitioners (veterinarians and animal health technicians) in the whole country concerning ...
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Mulandane, Fernando C.; Snyman, Louwtjie P.; Brito, Denise R.A.; Bouyer, Jeremy; Fafetine, Jose; Van Den Abbeele, Jan; Oosthuizen, Marinda C.; Delespaux, Vincent; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G. (BioMed Central, 2020-04-29)BACKGROUND : Tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae) and tabanids (Diptera: Tabanidae) are haematophagous insects of medical and veterinary importance due to their respective role in the biological and mechanical transmission ...
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Rodrigues, Carla M.F.; Garcia, Herakles A.; Rodrigues, Adriana C.; Pereira, Dagmar Lopes; Pereira, Carlos Lopes; Viola, Laerte B.; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G.; Camargo, Erney P.; Gibson, Wendy; Teixeira, Marta Maria Geraldes (Elsevier, 2020-03)Among the subgenera of African tsetse-transmitted trypanosomes pathogenic to livestock, the least known is the subgenus Pycnomonas, which contains a single species, Trypanosoma suis (TSU), a pathogen of domestic pigs first ...
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Abílio, Ana Paula; Kampango, Ayubo Amisse; Armand, Eliseu J.; Gudo, Eduardo S.; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G.; Parreira, Ricardo; Sidat, Mohsin; Fafetine, Jose M.; De Almeida, Antonio Paulo G. (BioMed Central, 2020-07)BACKGROUND: Mozambique, same as many other tropical countries, is at high risk of arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) diseases and recently two dengue virus (DENV) outbreaks occurred in the northern part of the country. The ...
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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.; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G. (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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Borghesan, Tarcilla C.; Campaner, Marta; Matsumoto, Tania E.; Espinosa, Omar A.; Razafindranaivo, Victor; Paiva, Fernando; Carranza, Julio C.; Anez, Nestor; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G.; Teixeira, Marta M. G.; Camargo, Erney P. (Frontiers Media, 2018-02-07)This study is about the inter- and intra-specific genetic diversity of trypanosomatids of the genus Angomonas, and their association with Calliphoridae (blowflies) in Neotropical and Afrotropical regions. Microscopic ...
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Colangelo, Paolo; Di Civita, Marika; Bento, Carlos; Franchini, Paolo; Meyer, Axel; Orel, Nadiya; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G.; Mulandane, Fernando C.; Almeida, Joao S.; Senczuk, Gabriele; Pilla, Fabio; Sabatelli, Simone (Springer, 2024)The African buffalo, Syncerus caffer, is a key species in African ecosystems. Like other large herbivores, it plays a fundamental role in its habitat acting as an ecosystem engineer. Over the last few centuries, African ...
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Stoltsz, Wilhelm Heinrich; Byaruhanga, Charles; Troskie, Milana; Makgabo, Sekgota Marcus; Oosthuizen, Marinda C.; Collins, Nicola E.; Das Neves, Luis Carlos Bernardo G. (Elsevier, 2020-07)Babesia bigemina is one of the aetiological agents of bovine babesiosis, which causes economic losses through mortality, loss of production and control costs. Effective means of detecting and quantifying B. bigemina in ...
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