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Koeppel, Katja Natalie; Geertsma, Peter; Kuhn, Brian F.; Van Schalkwyk, Ockert Louis; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.) (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2022-02-10)Rabies is a zoonotic disease that remains endemic in large parts of southern Africa because of its persistence in wildlife and domestic dog vectors. The black-backed jackals (Canis mesomelas) is primarily the wildlife ...
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Oguttu, James Wabwire; Picard, J.A.; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.) (Medwell Journals, 2012)Poultry abattoir workers who carry out eviscerate do pick up resistance from broiler enteric organisms. To test this hypothesis, the prevalence of and the association of antimicrobial drug resistance between enterococci ...
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Mareledwane, Vuyokazi Epipodia; Adesiyun, Abiodun Adewale; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.); Hlokwe, Tiny M. (Wiley Open Access, 2022-11)BACKGROUND: Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a zoonotic disease with great economic impact estimated at billions of dollars annually worldwide. Meat inspection represents a long-standing form of disease surveillance that ...
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Jonker, Annelize; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.); Michel, Anita Luise (AOSIS, 2023-01-11)Abortions in domestic ruminants cause significant economic losses to farmers. Determining the cause of an abortion is important for control efforts, but it can be challenging. All available diagnostic methods in the ...
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Govindasamy, K.; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.); Harris, Bernice Nerine; Rossouw, Jennifer; Abernethy, D.A. (Darrell); Etter, Eric Marcel Charles (BioMed Central, 2021-11-26)In South Africa, the prevalence of cattle handler exposure to Brucella on cattle farms is unknown and risk factors and cattle symptoms associated with infected cattle herds are unavailable. To address this gap, a ...
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Simpson, Gregory J.G.; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.); Saegerman, Claude; Marcotty, Tanguy; Letesson, Jean‑Jacques; De Bolle, Xavier; Godfroid, Jacques (Nature Research, 2021)This study aimed to consolidate current knowledge of wildlife brucellosis in Africa and to analyse available predictors of infection. The preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta analyses guidelines were ...
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Mai, H.M. (Hassan Mohammed); Irons, Pete Charles; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.) (BioMed Central, 2015-01-20)BACKGROUND: Reproductive diseases limit the productivity of cattle worldwide and represent an important obstacle to profitable cattle enterprise. In this study, herd brucellosis and bovine genital campylobacteriosis (BGC) ...
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Koster, Liza Sally; Van Schoor, Mirinda; Goddard, Amelia; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.); Matjila, Paul Tshepo; Kjelgaard-Hansen, Mads (South African Veterinary Association, 2009-06)C-reactive protein (CRP) is a positive major acute-phase protein in dogs and can be used as a predictive marker for risk of disease and to monitor the response to treatment. Increased concentrations in certain diseases are ...
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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 ...
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Onyeka, L.O. (Libby); Adesiyun, Abiodun Adewale; Keddy, Karen H.; Hassim, Ayesha; Smith, Anthony Marius; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.) (Elsevier, 2022-08)In South Africa, there is a shortage of epidemiologic data on Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in the beef production chain. This study was conducted to characterise STEC isolates originating from three studies ...
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Jori, Ferran J.; Caron, Alexandre; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.); Dwarka, Rahana M.; Foggin, Chris M.; De Garine-Wichatitsky, Michel; Hofmeyr, Markus; Van Heerden, J.; Heath, Livio Edward (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016-02)Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) inflicts severe economic losses within infected countries and is arguably the most important trade-restricting livestock disease in the world. In southern Africa, infected African buffaloes ...
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Makhanthisa, Takalani Irene; Guarido, Milehna M.; Kemp, Alan; Weyer, Jacqueline; Rostal, Melinda K.; Karesh, William B.; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.) (BMC, 2024-08)BACKGROUND : Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a zoonotic mosquito-borne virus with serious implications for livestock health, human health, and the economy in Africa, and is suspected to be endemic in north-eastern ...
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Leisewitz, Andrew L.; Goddard, Amelia; Clift, Sarah Jane; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.); De Gier, Jill; Van Engelshoven, J.M.A.J.A.J. (Jessica); Schoeman, Johan P. (Elsevier, 2019-07)Babesia rossi causes the most severe clinical disease in dogs of all the babesia parasites. We included 320 naturally-infected dogs that presented for care at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital between 2006 and ...
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Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.); Van Amstel, S.R.; Henton, Marijke M.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand (Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1998)The clinical efficacy of enrofloxacin was tested in calves with experimentally induced pneumonic pasteurellosis. A strain of Pasteurella haemolytica, biotype A, serotype 1 (P haemolytica A 1), which had been isolated ...
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Smit, Yolandi; Marais, Hendrik Johannes; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.); Mahne, Arnold Theofilus; Goddard, Amelia (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2019-05-23)Osteoarthritis is a common cause of lameness in horses, resulting in poor performance. Intraarticular platelet-rich plasma can deliver a collection of bioactive molecules, such as autologous growth factors and proteins ...
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Ganswindt, Andre; Munscher, Stefanie; Henley, Michelle; Palme, Rupert; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.); Bertschinger, Hendrik Jan (Nordic Council for Wildlife Research, 2010-06)Free-ranging African elephants Loxodonta africana use their front feet frequently during the process of foraging and this could be the reason for the high prevalence of physical injuries to these parts of the body. Although ...
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Abu Samra, Nada; Jori, Ferran J.; Caccio, Simone M.; Frean, John; Poonsamy, Bhavani; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.) (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2016-05-20)Cryptosporidium infection is one of the most common causes of parasitic diarrhoea worldwide in cattle and humans. In developing countries, human cryptosporidiosis is most prevalent during early childhood and links between ...
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Atkinson, Brogan Kim; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.); Van Zyl, Estee; Goddard, Amelia; Rautenbach, Yolandi; Schoeman, Johan P.; Mukorera, Varaidzo; Leisewitz, Andrew L. (Elsevier, 2022-07-19)Babesia rossi causes severe morbidity and mortality in dogs in sub-Saharan Africa. This was an experimental study designed to observe systemic changes caused by Babesia rossi infection within a canine disease model as ...
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Van den Bergh, Carien; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.); Swanepoel, Robert; Almeida, Antonio Paulo Gouveia; Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Van Vuren, Petrus Jansen; Wilson, William C.; Kemp, Alan; Venter, Estelle Hildegard (MDPI, 2022-01-21)Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a mosquito-borne, zoonotic phlebovirus-causing disease in domestic ruminants and humans in Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and some Indian Ocean islands. Outbreaks, characterized by abortion ...
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Penfold, Miles John; Schulman, M.L. (Martin); Clift, Sarah Jane; Du Plessis, Lisa; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.); Hartman, Marthinus Jacobus (Wiley, 2020-09)The histological effect on the felid uterus of sterilization, via ovariectomy or salpingectomy, is currently unknown. To investigate the association of ovariectomy or salpingectomy with uterine health, it is first necessary ...
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