Browsing by UP Author "Zaayman, Dewald"

Browsing by UP Author "Zaayman, Dewald"

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  • Lineage 2 West Nile virus as cause of fatal neurologic disease in horses, South Africa 
    Venter, Marietjie; Human, Stacey; Zaayman, Dewald; Gerdes, Gertruida Hermanna; Williams, June Heather; Steyl, Johan Christian Abraham; Leman, Patricia A.; Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Setzkorn, Hildegard; Rous, Gavin; Murray, Sue; Parker, Rissa; Donnellan, Cynthia Mary Bridget; Swanepoel, Robert (Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009-05-06)
    Serologic evidence suggests that West Nile virus (WNV) is widely distributed in horses in Southern Africa. However, because few neurologic cases have been reported, endemic lineage 2 strains were postulated to be non-pathogenic ...
  • A sensitive nested real-time RT-PCR for the detection of Shuni virus 
    Van Eeden, Charmaine; Zaayman, Dewald; Venter, Marietjie (Elsevier, 2014-01)
    Recently Shuni virus (SHUV) has been identified in clinical cases of neurological disease in horses in South Africa. Being that it was one of the less recognized orthobunyaviruses, with limited clinical descriptions of ...
  • Transmission of West Nile virus during horse autopsy 
    Venter, Marietjie; Steyl, Johan Christian Abraham; Weyer, Jacqueline; Zaayman, Dewald; Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Swanepoel, Robert; Human, Stacey; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Leman, Patricia A. (Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010-03)
    No abstract available.
  • West Nile virus neurologic disease in humans, South Africa, September 2008-May 2009 
    Zaayman, Dewald; Venter, Marietjie (Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012-12)
    We investigated West Nile virus (WNV) as a possible disease etiology in persons hospitalized in South Africa. Of 206 specimens tested, 36 had WNV neutralizing antibodies, signifi cantly more than in similar earlier ...