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African horse sickness in naturally infected, immunised horses

Weyer, Camilla Theresa; Quan, Melvyn; Joone, Christopher; Lourens, Carina W.; MacLachlan, N.J. (James); Guthrie, Alan John (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-01)

To determine whether subclinical cases, together with clinical cases, of African horse sickness (AHS) occur in immunised horses in field conditions, whole blood samples were collected and rectal temperatures recorded ...
The carrier prevalence of severe combined immunodeficiency, lavender foal syndrome and cerebellar abiotrophy in Arabian horses in South Africa

Tarr, Carolynne Jane; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.); Guthrie, Alan John; Harper, Cindy Kim (Wiley, 2014-07)

REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY : The carrier prevalence of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), lavender foal syndrome (LFS) and cerebellar abiotrophy (CA) in Arabian foals in South Africawas determined in order to ...
The combination of abundance and infection rates of Culicoides sonorensis estimates risk of subsequent bluetongue virus infection of sentinel cattle on California dairy farms

Mayo, Christie E.; Barker, Christopher M.; Mullens, Bradley A.; Gerry, Alec C.; Mertens, Peter P.C.; Maan, Sushila; Maan, Narender; Gardner, Ian A.; Guthrie, Alan John; MacLachlan, N.J. (James) (Elsevier, 2012-06)

Bluetongue (BT) is an important viral disease of ruminants that is transmitted by hematophagous Culicoides midges. We examined the seasonal patterns of abundance and infection of Culicoides sonorensis at four dairy farms ...
A competitive ELISA for the detection of group-specific antibody to equine encephalosis virus

Crafford, Jan Ernst; Guthrie, Alan John; Van Vuuren, Moritz; Mertens, Peter P.C.; Burroughs, J.N.; Howell, P.G.; Batten, C.A.; Hamblin, Christopher (Elsevier, 2011-06)

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Conserving large carnivores : dollars and fence

Packer, C.; Loveridge, A.; Canney, S.; Caro, T.; Garnett, S.T.; Pfeifer, Marion; Zander, K.K.; Swanson, A.; MacNulty, D.; Balme, Guy Andrew; Bauer, H.; Begg, C.M.; Begg, K.S.; Bhalla, S.; Bissett, C.; Bodasing, T.; Brink, H.; Burger, A.; Burton, A.C.; Clegg, B.; Dell, S.; Delsink, Audrey K.; Dickerson, T.; Dloniak, S.M.; Druce, D.; Frank, L.; Funston, Paul J.; Gichohi, N.; Groom, R.J. (Rosemary); Hanekom, C.; Heath, B.; Hunter, Luke T.B.; De Iongh, Hans H.; Joubert, C.J.; Kasiki, S.M.; Kissui, B.; Knocker, W.; Leathem, B.; Lindsey, Peter Andrew; MacLennan, S.D.; McNutt, J.W.; Miller, Susan M.; Naylor, S.; Nel, P.; Ngweno, C.; Nicholls, K.; Ogutu, Joseph O.; Okot-Omoya, E.; Patterson, B.D.; Plumptre, A.; Salerno, J.; Skinner, K.; Slotow, Robert; Sogbohossou, E.A.; Stratford, K.J.; Winterbach, Christiaan W.; Winterbach, Hanlie Evelyn Kathleen; Polasky, S. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-05)

Conservationists often advocate for landscape approaches to wildlife management while others argue for physical separation between protected species and human communities, but direct empirical comparisons of these alternatives ...
Cyclic neutropenia in a basset hound

Koster, Liza Sally; Harper, Cindy Kim; Goddard, Amelia (BMJ Publishing Group, 2015)

A 6 month old, male basset hound was referred for intermittent malaise, and pyrexia that repeated every 10-11 days. Sequential blood counts and bone marrow aspirates demonstrated severe neutropaenia and increased myeloid ...
Development of a real time polymerase chain reaction assay for equine encephalosis virus

Rathogwa, Ntungufhadzeni Maclaughlin; Quan, Melvyn; Smit, J.Q.; Lourens C.; Guthrie, Alan John; Van Vuuren, Moritz (Elsevier, 2014-01)

Equine encephalosis virus (EEV) is the cause of equine encephalosis. The disease is similar to mild forms of African horse sickness (AHS) and the two diseases are easily confused. Laboratory identification and serotyping ...
Diagnostic accuracy of a duplex real-time reverse transcription quantitative PCR assay for detection of African horse sickness virus

Guthrie, Alan John; MacLachlan, N.J. (James); Joone, Christopher; Lourens, Carina W.; Weyer, Camilla Theresa; Quan, Melvyn; Monyai, Mpho S.; Gardner, Ian A. (Elsevier, 2013)

Blood samples collected from 503 suspect cases of African horse sickness (AHS) and another 503 from uninfected, unvaccinated South African horses, as well as 98 samples from horses from an AHS free country, were tested ...
Direct culture–independent sequence typing of Taylorella equigenitalis obtained from genital swabs and frozen semen samples from South African horses

May, Catherine Edith; Guthrie, Alan John; Schulman, M.L. (Martin) (Sage, 2019-09)

We report herein the use of crude extracts obtained from samples of Taylorella equigenitalis–infected horses for the purpose of multi-locus sequence typing (MLST). Samples (n = 36) were collected from horses in South Africa ...
Duration of repellency of N,N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide, citronella oil and cypermethrin against Culicoides species when applied to polyester mesh

Page, Patrick Collin; Labuschagne, Karien; Nurton, Jane P.; Venter, Gert Johannes; Guthrie, Alan John (Elsevier, 2009-07)

The repellent efficacy of 15% N,N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide (DEET), 0.6% citronella oil, and 0.3% α-cyano-cypermethrin against Culicoides species was compared in three 5 × 5 Latin squares (15 replicates) under South African ...
Epidemiology and reproductive outcomes of EHV-1 abortion epizootics in unvaccinated thoroughbred mares in South Africa

Schulman, M.L. (Martin); Becker, A.; Van der Merwe, B.D.; Guthrie, Alan John; Stout, T.A.E. (Tom) (Wiley, 2015-03)

REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY : EHV-1 is one of the most common causes of infectious abortion in mares. Analyzing the demography of outbreaks and detailing subsequent reproductive performance of affected mares will assist ...
Equine piroplasmosis treatment protocols : specific effect on orocaecal transit time as measured by the lactose C-13-ureide breath test

Kutscha, J.; Sutton, D.G.M.; Preston, T.; Guthrie, Alan John (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-11-27)

Reasons for performing study: Imidocarb dipropionate is the drug of choice for equine piroplasmosis, but its administration causes severe colic and diarrhoea. An imidocarb protocol that reduces these signs is ...
Evaluation of microsatellite markers for populations studies and forensic identification of African lions (Panthera leo)

Miller, Susan M.; Harper, Cindy Kim; Bloomer, Paulette; Hofmeyr, Jennifer; Funston, Paul J. (Oxford University Press, 2014-11)

The South African lion (Panthera leo) population is highly fragmented. One third of its wild lions occur in small (<1000 km2) reserves. These lions were reintroduced from other areas of the species’ historical range. ...
Evaluation of microsatellites for common ungulates in the South African wildlife industry

Miller, Susan M.; Clarke, Amy B.; Bloomer, Paulette; Guthrie, Alan John; Harper, Cindy Kim (Springer, 2016-09)

Wildlife is a multi-million dollar industry in South Africa ranging from intensively farmed animals on small properties to free-roaming animals in large functional ecosystems. Specific concerns surrounding the ...
Exercise-induced pulmonary haemorrhage impairs racing performance in thoroughbred racehorses

Morley, Paul S.; Bromberek, J.L.; Saulez, Montague Newton; Hinchcliff, Kenneth W.; Guthrie, Alan John (Wiley, 2015-05)

REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY : Exercise-induced pulmonary haemorrhage (EIPH) occurs commonly in Thoroughbred racehorses worldwide. While EIPH is believed to be an important cause of impaired performance in these horses, ...
A field investigation of an African horse sickness outbreak in the controlled area of South Africa in 2016

Grewar, John Duncan; Weyer, Camilla Theresa; Venter, Gert Johannes; Van Helden, Lesley Susan; Burger, Phillippa; Guthrie, Alan John; Coetzee, Peter; Labuschagne, Karien; Buhrmann, Gary; Parker, Beverley Joan; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.) (Wiley, 2019-03)

An outbreak of African horse sickness (AHS) caused by AHS virus type 1 occurred within the South African AHS surveillance zone during April and May 2016. The index case was detected by a private veterinarian through passive ...
First detection and frequent occurrence of Equine Hepacivirus in horses on the African continent

Badenhorst, Marcha; Tegtmeyer, Birthe; Todt, Daniel; Guthrie, Alan John; Feige, Karsten; Campe, Amely; Steinmann Eike; Cavalleri, J.M.V. (Jessika) (Elsevier, 2018-09)

Since the discovery of equine hepacivirus (EqHV) in 2011, the virus has been detected in horse populations from more than twelve countries across five continents. EqHV seroprevalence has been reported to be as high as 61.8% ...
Friends and family : a software program for identification of unrelated individuals from molecular marker data

De Jager, G.J. (Deon); Swarts, Petrus; Harper, Cindy Kim; Bloomer, Paulette (Wiley, 2017-11)

The identification of related and unrelated individuals from molecular marker data is often difficult, particularly when no pedigree information is available and the data set is large. High levels of relatedness or inbreeding ...
Missense mutation in the ligand-binding domain of the horse androgen receptor gene in a thoroughbred family with inherited 64,XY (SRY+) disorder of sex development

Bolzon, Colin; Joone, C.J. (Carolynne); Schulman, M.L. (Martin); Harper, Cindy Kim; Villagómez, Daniel A.F.; King, W. Allan; Révay, Tamas (Karger, 2016)

Disorders of sex development (DSD) have long been documented in domestic animal species including horses. However, there is only a single report of an androgen receptor mutation causative of such a DSD syndrome in a horse ...
Molecular sexing of African rhinoceros

Peppin, Lindsay; McEwing, Ross; Ogden, Rob; Hermes, Robert; Harper, Cindy Kim; Guthrie, Alan John; Carvalho, Gary R. (Springer, 2009-04)

We report the development of a fast and reliable PCR-based method for sex identification of African Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum and Diceros bicornis) that could easily be incorporated into fluorescent short tandem ...

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