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Theses and Dissertations (Production Animal Studies): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Rabies causes fatal encephalitis in all warm-blooded animals, including humans. It is thought to have entered southern Africa in 1892 with a domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) from England; however, rabies was most ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Background and Introduction Human brucellosis, a neglected zoonotic disease of global public health importance, can be prevented by controlling the disease in livestock hosts. In South Africa (SA) there has been an increasing ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Garlic is one of the most popular edible plants in the world that has shown to have anti-microbial properties against bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa. Garliumâ GEM HC is a product that contains garlic together with ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)African swine fever (ASF) which is caused by the African swine fever virus (ASFV) has infected domestic pigs in Uganda and several African countries. Recent events in the country where the disease is endemic show that it ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Q fever is a zoonotic disease caused by Coxiella burnetii which infects humans and a wide range of hosts including birds, mammals, ticks, fish and reptiles. Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus (RVFV) is a mosquito-borne pathogen ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Surveillance is one of the core components of freedom from disease status declarations made by countries with regards to African horse sickness (AHS). This is especially true for South Africa which has a controlled area ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)The South African poultry industry has been beset by sporadic H6N2 avian influenza infection (sub-lineage I and II) in chickens since the early 2000s, with economic losses resulting from reduced egg production and co-infection ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Trichomonosis is currently the most important venereal disease of cattle in South Africa with adverse economic implications to the beef production industry due to cow abortions, infertility and culling of carrier bulls. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-08)Transboundary animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) have negative socio-economic consequences that include impacts on food security. Vaccination reduces the number of susceptible animals and is one of the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a transboundary animal disease that has a major impact on livestock production, regional and international trade and livelihoods of smallholder farmers in endemic settings. The disease is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Dog breeders invest a lot of time and money into breeding efforts and it is important for veterinarians to assist clients in achieving a successful outcome of a breeding attempt. Being able to predict when a bitch is likely ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)South African farmers have struggled for many years with the loss of livestock on their farms due to predators such as black backed jackals (Canis mesomelas) and caracal (Caracal caracal). These farmers have been known to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The dams' physiological status (gestational stages, lactation, and dry period) is crucial in utilising minerals. The mechanisms controlling the utilisation of minerals during pregnancy are inadequately understood. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The use of immunocontraceptives in veterinary population management and wildlife fertility control is well-established. The porcine zona pellucida (pZP) vaccine has been successfully used in approximately 85 species. The ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Mycoplasma synoviae are listed by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) as notifiable avian diseases agents and are considered as economically important species affecting the South ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Foot-and-mouth Diseases (FMD) is an important livestock disease with economic implications on trade. In southern Africa, the epidemiology of FMD is complicated as a result of the role of African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) ...
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Failure to detect equid herpesvirus type 1 DNA in Thoroughbred placentae and healthy new-born foals (University of Pretoria, 2018)Equid alphaherpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) is an economically important virus, associated with respiratory infection, late gestation abortion, neonatal death and myeloencephalopathy in horses. The aim of the present study was to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Ascites or pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) syndrome is a significant cause of mortality in modern fast-growing broilers that are raised at high altitude. Damage caused by temperature to the cardio-vascular system ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Trichomonosis is a venereal disease responsible for extensive economic losses. Tritrichomonas foetus, deposited during copulation, adheres to the vaginal mucosa where it proliferates. The vaginal bacterial microbiota ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a disease of ruminants in Africa, Madagascar and the Middle East, affecting primarily domestic, but also many wild species. The disease can be peracute to acute and is characterised by a necrotic ...
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