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Theses and Dissertations (Veterinary Tropical Diseases): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Foetal loss can be devastating to a cattle farmer. In the Free State province many commercial cattle farms contend with foetal loss due to abortion. The causes of most of these abortions are never diagnosed because of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Rift Valley fever (RVF), is a mosquito-borne viral disease affecting humans and some species of ruminants including sheep, cattle, goats, buffalos and to a lesser extent wild animals. It is a re-emerging disease responsible ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Recent case reports have suggested an increase in cases where dogs have been affected by African horse sickness virus (AHSV). Contrary to historic findings, several cases have been reported where dogs became infected without ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Ticks and tick-borne diseases (TBDs) cause significant losses, through their effects on health, production of animals and humans worldwide. Notably, the countries located within the tropics and subtropics such as Uganda ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The tragelaphine antelopes comprise a group of nine species, namely Tragelaphus eurycerus (bongo), Tragelaphus scriptus (bushbuck), Tragelaphus oryx (common eland), Tragelaphus derbianus (giant eland), Tragelaphus strepsiceros ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)In Mnisi, a rural community in South Africa, Rhipicephalus sanguineus is one of the most prevalent ticks found on dogs. The community lies at the wildlife/livestock/human interface where humans are at risk of tick-borne ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a mosquito-borne virus and a member of the family Phenuiviridae and genus Phlebovirus. The single stranded RNA genome consists of three segments, Large (L), Medium (M) and Small (S). Rift ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Tabanidae (Diptera) is a diverse haematophagous fly family, known to transmit over 35 livestock pathogens both mechanically and biologically. Kruger National Park (KNP) (in Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces), South Africa, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This project was conducted in order to ascertain the presence or absence of acaricide resistance in ticks in an area of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) where tick-borne diseases pose a real and dire threat to communal and commercial ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)In the Bushbuckridge Local Municipality (BLM), Mpumalanga, the size and economic importance of the local, mostly informal, cattle trade has been considered negligible to date by local policy makers. Opportunities for the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Avian influenza (AI) control in farmed ostriches relies on rapid and accurate diagnostic testing to detect the presence and spread of disease in avian populations, as flocks are in unavoidable contact with wild bird ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)BACKGROUND In South Africa, bovine TB (bTB) is a state-controlled disease but the monitoring of bTB in small ruminants is largely neglected, whereas bTB diagnosis and surveillance in cattle and buffalo are prioritised due ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Theileria parva utilizes genetic diversity as a survival strategy in evasion of the host’s immune system. Hence, effective control of T. parva infections is highly reliant on understanding the extent of genotypic and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Theileria parva is the most significant tick-borne haemoparasite associated with buffalo and it causes Corridor disease in Southern Africa. African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is known for being the host of many pathogens ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Rickettsia africae is a gram-negative bacterium which causes African tick bite fever (ATBF) in humans. ATBF is a febrile disease mainly affecting travellers to Southern Africa. This bacterium is known to be transmitted by ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Rationale: Tuberculosis (TB) in elephants is a chronic respiratory disease, most often caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and infected animals show little or no clinical sign until the disease is in its advanced stages. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The work presented here investigates a number of important components in the epidemiology of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) at the wildlife-livestock interface along the Kruger National Park (KNP) and its adjoining private ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The Mnisi community, a rural area, is nestled at the cusp of a human/livestock/wildlife interface in Bushbuckridge Municipality, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. In this area, undifferentiated non-malarial acute febrile ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1987)Afrikaans: Die patogenese en patologie van die hemostatiese versteuringe is deur middel van hematologiese, histochemiese, lig- en transmissie-elektronmikroskopiese metodes in 2 groepe varke besmet of met virulente heem ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)A risk assessment was conducted for Salmonella enteritidis (SE) in the broiler production chain of the Western Cape of South Africa, using a literature review, historical data analysis, microbiological sampling from abattoirs ...
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