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Browsing by Subject "Veterinary science theses SDG-01"
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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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(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)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)Ticks and tick borne diseases remain a huge threat to livestock productivity the world over. While several efforts have been made to control ticks, current control measures are still not adequate. Conventionally, tick ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Farmers in developing countries are faced with many diseases that limit the productivity of their animals, several of which are caused by tick infestations. To date, treatment of host animals with synthetic, chemical tick ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)A study was conducted (November 2012) on the communal dipping system in Mnisi, Mpumalanga Province of South Africa to detect levels of blue tick resistance to commonly used acaricides. The larvae obtained from engorged ...
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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, 2016)Animal diseases have always been one of the main constraints on animal production, especially in Africa where there are a variety of tropical and subtropical diseases. Knowledge of these diseases and the development of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Increased prevalence of antimicrobial resistance, treatment failure, and financial losses have been reported in dairy cattle with coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (CoNS) clinical mastitis. However, studies on CoNS are ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The number of cattle herds in the UK newly infected with bovine tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis) has doubled every nine years since 1979. Controlling bovine tuberculosis (bTB) currently costs the British taxpayer an ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) is a disease of cloven-hoofed animals well-known not only for significant production losses but also restricted market access for livestock and livestock products from affected areas. It severely ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)A pig is any listed animal species in the genus Sus, within the family Suidae of even-toed ungulates. The domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus) (also referred to as swine or hog) is a large, domesticated, eventoed ungulate ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)In this study the prevalence of methicillin resistant Stahylococcus aureus (MRSA) among commercial piggeries in South Africa was determined. Twenty five commercial herds across South Africa participated. From each herd ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Brucellosis is an economically important bacterial disease of both animals and humans. In sub-Saharan Africa, the diagnosis of the disease remains a challenge. Brucellosis is underreported in South Africa, due to inconsistency ...
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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, 2018)The aim of this study was to investigate if a vaccine can be developed against epoxyscillirosidine, to prevent yellow tulp poisoning in livestock. Moraea pallida Bak. (yellow tulp) poisoning is the most important cardiac ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The Mnisi community is in the north-eastern corner of the Bushbuckridge Municipal Area, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. This community is located at the livestock/wildlife interface sharing borders with several game ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Microbial community in the gut of pigs provides a vast and complex microbial network of community diversity important for its health and development. Pathogenic Escherichia coli are responsible for acute profuse diarrhoea ...
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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, 2018)Heartwater, caused by Ehrlichia ruminantium, causes significant economic losses to commercial small stock farmers, including commercial boer goat farmers in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Heartwater is endemic in ...
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