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Bovine trypanosomosis prevalence at the edge of Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Ntantiso, Lundi Norman; De Beer, Chantel Janet; Marcotty, Tanguy; Latif, Abdalla A. (AOSIS OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-09)The northern KwaZulu-Natal (NKZN) region of South Africa is the southern limit of the African tsetse belt. Entomological information on Glossina brevipalpis and Glossina austeni was generated following the outbreak of ...
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Bovine trypanosomosis prevalence at the edge of Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Ntantiso, Lundi Norman; De Beer, Chantel Janet; Marcotty, Tanguy; Latif, Abdalla A. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2014-09-12)The northern KwaZulu-Natal (NKZN) region of South Africa is the southern limit of the African tsetse belt. Entomological information on Glossina brevipalpis and Glossina austeni was generated following the outbreak of ...
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Bamhare, C.; Thomson, G.R. (Gavin); Latif, Abdalla A.; Mulumba, Misheck; Chisembele, C.; Derah, N.; Mataa, L.; Mokopasetso, M.; Dlamini, P.; Jamal, S.; De Klerk, G.; Letuka, O.; Chikungwa, P.; Mumba, T.; Dombolo, E.F.; Wanda, G.; Munstermann, Susanne; Van Schalkwyk, Louis; Gummow, Bruce; Hendrickx, G.; Berkvens, Dirk; Marcotty, Tanguy; Thys, Eric; Van den Bossche, Peter (South African Veterinary Association, 2007-06)A workshop to produce recommendations on training requirements for improved epidemiosurveillance of livestock diseases in southern Africa was organised at the Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases in the Veterinary ...
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Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes); Pienaar, Ronel; Latif, Abdalla A.; Potgieter, Fred T. (Cambridge University Press, 2011)Sequence variation within the 18S SSU rRNA V4 hyper-variable region can affect the accuracy of real-time hybridization probe-based diagnostics for the detection of Theileria spp. infections. This is relevant for assays ...
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Latif, Abdalla A.; Hove, T.; Kanhai, G.K.; Masaka, S.; Pegram, R.G.; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik (Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria., 2001)Fifty-nine Hereford cattle susceptible to tick-borne diseases were used as tracer animals to assess the tick challenge and pathogenicity of Theileria parva under field conditions in Zimbabwe. They were moved periodically ...
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Latif, Abdalla A.; Hove, T.; Kanhai, G.K.; Masaka, S.; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik (Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria., 2001)Eight cattle immunized with cattle-derived Theileria parva Boleni stabilate together with six susceptible controls were released in Dombawera Game Park on the Highveld of Zimbabwe. This coincided with Rhipicephalus ...
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Combrink, M.P.; Troskie, P.C.; Pienaar, Ronel; Latif, Abdalla A.; Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes) (Elsevier, 2014-01)Genotypic diversity in Babesia bovis (cause of Asiatic redwater in cattle) vaccine strains and field isolates from South Africa were investigated using the Bv80 gene as well as microsatellites. The S11 vaccine strain ...
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Pienaar, Ronel; Latif, Abdalla A.; Thekisoe, Oriel M.M.; Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes) (Cambridge University Press, 2014)Strict control measures apply to movement of buffalo in South Africa including testing for Theileria parva, the causative agent of Corridor disease in cattle. The official test is a real-time hybridization PCR assay that ...
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Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes); De Klerk, Daniel G.; Pienaar, Ronel; Latif, Abdalla A. (Springer, 2014)Nuttalliella namaqua has been described as a “living fossil” and the closest extant species to the ancestral tick lineage. It was previously proposed that the Nuttalliella lineage parasitized reptile-like mammals in the ...
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Pienaar, Ronel; Potgieter, Fred T.; Latif, Abdalla A.; Thekisoe, Oriel M.M.; Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes) (Cambridge University Press, 2011-09-09)Corridor disease is an acute, fatal disease of cattle caused by buffalo-adapted Theileria parva. This is a nationally controlled disease in South Africa and strict control measures apply for the movement of buffalo, which ...
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Hove, T.; Mukandi, R.; Bere, M.; Horak, Ivan Gerard; Latif, Abdalla A. (South African Veterinary Association, 2008-06)The purpose of this study was to determine the species spectrum of ticks infesting goats owned by resource-limited farmers in the state-owned communal land areas of Zimbabwe. Ticks were collected from goats at a single ...
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Latif, Abdalla A.; Hove, T.; Kanhai, G.K.; Masaka, S.; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik (Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria., 2001)The Theileria parva carrier-state in cattle on commercial farms on Zimbabwe was investigated using parasitological and serological methods. The proportion of cattle showing Theileria piroplasms on two farms, ...
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Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes); De Klerk, Daniel G.; Pienaar, Ronel; De Castro, M.H. (Minique Hilda); Latif, Abdalla A. (Public Library of Science, 2012-11-08)Ixodida are composed of hard (Ixodidae), soft (Argasidae) and the monotypic Nuttalliellidae (Nuttalliella namaqua) tick families. Nuclear 18S rRNA analysis suggested that N. namaqua was the closest extant relative to the ...
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Pienaar, Ronel; Potgieter, Fred T.; Latif, Abdalla A.; Thekisoe, Oriel M.M.; Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes) (Cambridge University Press, 2011-02-11)Buffalo-adapted Theileria parva causes Corridor disease in cattle. Strict control measures therefore apply to the movement of buffalo in South Africa and include mandatory testing of buffalo for the presence of T. parva. ...
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Mamabolo, M.V.; Ntantiso, Lundi Norman; Latif, Abdalla A.; Majiwa, P.O.A. (Phelix) (Cambridge University Press, 2009-03)The polymerase chain reaction was used to detect trypanosomes in samples collected from cattle, wild animals and tsetse flies in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. A total of 673 samples from cattle and 266 from tsetse ...
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Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes); De Klerk, Daniel G.; Pienaar, Ronel; De Castro, Minique H.; Latif, Abdalla A. (Elsevier, 2015-06)Nuclear ribosomal RNA (18S and 28S rRNA) and mitochondrial genomes are commonly used in tick systematics. The ability to retrieve these markers using next-generation sequencing was investigated using the tick Nuttalliella ...
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Latif, Abdalla A.; Putterill, John Fraser; De Klerk, Daniel G.; Pienaar, Ronel; Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes); Oliveira, Pedro Lagerblad (Public Library of Science, 2012-07-26)Nuttalliella namaqua is the only species of the enigmatic third tick family. Females possess features of hard and soft ticks and have been designated as the ‘‘missing link’’ between the main tick families. Its position ...
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Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes); De Klerk, Daniel G.; Pienaar, Ronel; Latif, Abdalla A. (Public Library of Science, 2011-08-17)Ticks are monophyletic and composed of the hard (Ixodidae) and soft (Argasidae) tick families, as well as the Nuttalliellidae, a family with a single species, Nuttalliella namaqua. Significant biological differences in ...
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Thompson, Bronwen Eleanor; Latif, Abdalla A.; Oosthuizen, Marinda C.; Troskie, Milana; Penzhorn, Barend Louis (South African Veterinary Association, 2008-03)Theileria parva causes widespread morbidity and mortality in cattle in endemic regions. An outbreak of theileriosis occurred on a farm near Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, which is not a declared Corridor ...
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Motloang, Makhosazana; Masumu, Justin; Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes); Latif, Abdalla A. (AOSIS OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-12)Trypanosoma congolense and Trypanosoma vivax are major species that infect cattle in north-eastern KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa. Of the two genetically distinct types of T. congolense, Savannah and Kilifi sub-groups, ...
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