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Browsing by Subject "Veterinary science articles SDG-02"
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Magadla, Noluvuyo Ruth; Vosloo, Wilna; Heath, Livio; Gummow, Bruce
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2016-05-23)
African swine fever (ASF) has been reported in South Africa since the early 20th century.
The disease has been controlled and confined to northern South Africa over the past 80 years
by means of a well-defined boundary ...
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Brown, A.A.; Penrith, Mary-Louise; Fasina, Folorunso Oludayo; Beltran-Alcrudo, D.
(Wiley, 2018-02)
African swine fever (ASF) is a contagious, highly fatal, haemorrhagic viral disease that only affects members of the Suidae family. Currently, no vaccine or treatment exists, so the disease has potentially devastating ...
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Mubamba, Chrisborn; Ramsay, G.; Abolnik, Celia; Dautu, G.; Gummow, Bruce
(Elsevier, 2018-10)
There are limited data on production and financial performance of the rural poultry sector in developing countries like Zambia that could be used by extension services as a feedback loop to enhance service delivery in the ...
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Mphahlele, Morutse; Tsotetsi-Khambule, Ana M.; Moerane, Rebone; Komape, Dennis M.; Thekisoe, Oriel M. M.
(Veterinary World, 2021-02)
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Previous studies recorded the prevalence of gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN) in Limpopo Province. However, the studies did not address the seasonal patterns of infection and did not cover all districts ...
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Oloso, Nurudeen Olalekan; Fagbo, Shamsudeen; Garbati, Musa; Olonitola, Steve O.; Awosanya, Emmanuel Jolaoluwa; Aworh, Mabel Kamweli; Adamu, Helen; Odetokun, Ismail Ayoade; Fasina, Folorunso Oludayo
(MDPI Publishing, 2018-06-17)
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as a global health threat, which has elicited a
high-level political declaration at the United Nations General Assembly, 2016. In response, member
countries agreed to pay greater ...
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Mdegela, Robinson H.; Mwakapeje, Elibariki R.; Rubegwa, Bachana; Gebeyehu, Daniel T.; Niyigena, Solange; Msambichaka, Victoria; Nonga, Hezron E.; Antoine-Moussiaux, Nicolas; Fasina, Folorunso Oludayo
(MDPI, 2021-04-16)
All infections are potentially curable as long as the etiological agents are susceptible to antimicrobials.
The increased rate at which antimicrobials are becoming ineffective is a global health risk
of increasing concern ...
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Khasapane, Ntelekwane G.; Nkhebenyane, Jane S.; Kwenda, Stanford; Khumalo, Zamantungwa Thobeka Happiness; Mtshali, Phillip S.; Taioe, Moeti O.; Thekisoe, Oriel M.M.
(De Gruyter Open, 2021)
Mastitis is a cow disease usually signalized by
irritation, swelling, and soreness of the udder. It is characterized by physical, chemical, and biological changes
in the udder and milk. The aim of this study was to ...
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Otekunrin, Olutosin A.; Otekunrin, Oluwaseun A.; Fasina, Folorunso Oludayo; Omotayom, Abiodun O.; Akram, Muhammad
(Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Sebelas Maret, 2020-08)
Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2) is hinged on achieving zero hunger target globally by 2030. Many developing countries, especially African countries, are challenged with extreme hunger that are often caused or ...
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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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Grispoldi, Luca; Karama, Musafiri; Hadjicharalambous, Chrystalleni; De Stefani, Fabrizio; Ventura, Giulia; Ceccarelli, Margherita; Revoltella, Marco; Sechi, Paola; Crotti, Carlo; D'Innocenzo, Antonio; Couto-Contreras, Gerardo; Cenci-Goga, Beniamino T.
(Elsevier, 2020-10)
Ground beef contamination with Escherichia coli is usually a result of carcass faecal contamination during the slaughter process. Carcasses are contaminated when they come into contact with soiled hides or intestinal leakage ...
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Banda, Frank; Sinkala, Yona; Mataa, Liywalli; Lebea, Phiyani; Sikombe, Tingiya; Kangwa, Henry L.; Fana, Elliot M.; Mokopasetso, Mokganedi; Wadsworth, Jemma; Knowles, Nick J.; King, Donald P.; Quan, Melvyn
(MDPI, 2021-10)
The livestock industry supports livelihood and nutritional security of at least 42% of people
in the Southern African Development Community region. However, presence of animal diseases such
as foot-and-mouth disease poses ...
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Tsegay, K.; Potts, A.D.; Aklilu, N.; Lötter, C.; Gummow, Bruce
(Elsevier, 2016-03)
Little work has been done on diseases of horses in Ethiopia or tropical regions of the world. Yet, Ethiopia
has the largest horse population in Africa and their horses play a pivotal role in their economy as traction
animals. ...
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Hove, Paidashe; Chaisi, Mamohale E.; Brayton, Kelly A.; Ganesan, Hamilton; Catanese, Helen N.; Mtshali, Moses S.; Mutshembele, Awelani M.; Oosthuizen, Marinda C.; Collins, Nicola E.
(BioMed Central, 2018-01-03)
BACKGROUND : Only a few studies have examined the presence of Anaplasma marginale and Anaplasma centrale in
South Africa, and no studies have comprehensively examined these species across the whole country. To undertake
this ...
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Zhang, Qiang; Zuo, Zonghui; Guo, Yongxia; Zhang, Tianyuan; Han, Zhenhai; Huang, Shujian; Karama, Musafiri; Saleemi, Muhammad Kashif; Khan, Ahrar; He, Cheng
(Nature Publishing Group, 2019-05-10)
Avian influenza virus subtype H9N2 is identified in chickens with respiratory disease while Bacillus
cereus (B. cereus) has been frequently isolated from chicken feed in China. However, the roles
of co-infection with ...
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Karodia, A.; Hargovan, M.; Fadal, R.; Parker, W.; Singh, R.; Hoosen, Anwar Ahmed; Qekwana, Daniel Nenene; Mahomed, S.
(South African Society of Occupational Medicine, 2020-07)
No abstract available
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Brioudes, Aurélie; Warner, Jeffrey; Hedlefs, Robert; Gummow, Bruce
(Elsevier, 2015-03)
Most Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) have developing economies and face a critical shortage of veterinarians with limited financial resources allocated to their animal disease surveillance programmes. Thus, ...
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Thomson, G.R. (Gavin); Fosgate, Geoffrey Theodore; Penrith, Mary-Louise
(Wiley, 2015)
A matrix system was developed to aid in the evaluation of the technical amenability to eradication, through mass vaccination, of transboundary animal diseases (TADs). The system involved evaluation of three basic criteria ...
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Holm, Dietmar Erik; Nielen, Mirjam; Jorritsma, R.; Irons, Pete Charles; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.)
(Elsevier, 2015-01)
In a 7-year longitudinal study 292 Bovelder beef cows in a restricted breeding system inSouth Africa were observed from 1 to 2 days before their first breeding season, when repro-ductive tract scoring (RTS, scored from 1 ...
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Barth, S.A.; Blome, S.; Cornelis, D.; Pietschmann, J.; Laval, M.; Maestrini, O.; Geue, L.; Charrier, F.; Etter, Eric Marcel Charles; Menge, C.; Beer, M.; Jori, Ferran J.
(Wiley, 2018-05)
On the Mediterranean island of Corsica, cohabitation between sympatric domestic pigs and Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa) is common and widespread and can facilitate the maintenance and dissemination of several pathogens ...
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Ghebremariam, M.K.; Michel, Anita Luise; Nielen, M.; Vernooij, J.C.M.; Rutten, Victor P.M.G.
(Blackwell Verlag GmbH, 2018-02)
The aim of our study was to determine the association of selected potential risk factors
with the presence of bovine tuberculosis (BTB) in dairy herds in Eritrea. A case–control
study was conducted in the three major ...