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Browsing Research Articles (Veterinary Tropical Diseases) by Author "Quan, Melvyn"
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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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Woma, Timothy Yusufu; Qasim, A.M.M.; Sabi, A.A.; Abraham, M.N.; Olaiya, O.D.; Bailey, D.; Shamaki, D.; Quan, Melvyn (Wiley, 2016-06)Peste-des-petits-ruminants (PPR), a major small ruminant transboundary animal disease, is endemic in Nigeria. Strains of the causal agent, peste-des-petits-ruminants virus (PPRV), have been differentiated into four ...
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De Villiers, Lourens; Quan, Melvyn; Troskie, Milana; Jordaan, J.C. (Joyce); Leisewitz, Andrew L. (Springer, 2020-03)PURPOSE : Light microscopic manual count is the current gold standard for parasite quantification. The ability to determine parasite density in whole blood is crucial to understanding disease pathogenesis and finding a ...
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Mantip, Samuel; Quan, Melvyn; Shamaki, David; Van Vuuren, Moritz (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-08-31)Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus (PPRV) is a highly contagious, fatal and economically important viral disease of small ruminants that is still endemic and militates against the production of sheep and goats in endemic ...
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Camarão, A.A.R.; Swanepoel, Robert; Boinas, F.; Quan, Melvyn (Elsevier, 2019-09)The Simbu serogroup within the genus Orthobunyavirus belongs to the family Peribunyaviridae and comprises 32 recognised three-segmented negative-sense single-stranded RNA viruses, with a cosmopolitan distribution. This ...
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Quan, Melvyn; Lourens, Carina W.; MacLachlan, N.J. (James); Gardner, Ian A.; Guthrie, Alan John (Elsevier, 2010)Nucleotide sequences of 52 South African isolates of African horse sickness virus (AHSV) collected during 2004–2005 and including viruses of all nine AHSV serotypes, were used to design and develop a duplex real-time ...
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Development and validation of a multiplex, real-time PCR assay for Babesia rossi and Babesia vogeli Troskie, Milana; De Villiers, Lourens; Leisewitz, Andrew L.; Oosthuizen, Marinda C.; Quan, Melvyn (Elsevier, 2019-02)Canine babesiosis is caused by tick-transmitted intraerythrocytic protozoan parasites occurring worldwide. In southern Africa, babesiosis is caused by Babesia rossi and B. vogeli and is one of the most common and important ...
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Nyarku, Rejoice; Hassim, Ayesha; Jonker, Annelize; Quan, Melvyn (MDPI, 2020-11-11)The aim of this study was to develop a 16S-23S ribosomal deoxyribonucleic acid internal transcribed spacer (ITS) quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assay for the early diagnosis and rapid screening of brucellosis. ...
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Khumalo, Zamantungwa Thobeka Happiness; Brayton, Kelly A.; Collins, Nicola E.; Chaisi, Mamohale E.; Quan, Melvyn; Oosthuizen, Marinda C. (Microbiology Society, 2018-08)In 1911, Sir Arnold Theiler isolated and described a parasite that was very similar to A. marginale but which was more centrally located within the erythrocytes of the host cells, and was much less pathogenic than A. ...
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Banda, Frank; Quan, Melvyn; Shilongo, Albertina; Hikufe, Emmanuel H.; Khaiseb, Siegfried; Kabajani, Juliet; Shikongo, Beatrice; Paul, Set; Kapapero, Joseph K.; Shoombe, Kenneth K.; Zaire, Georgina; Kabilika, Swithine; Quan, Melvyn; Fana, Elliot M.; Mokopasetso, Mokganedi; Hyera, Joseph M.K.; Wadsworth, Jemma; Knowles, Nick J.; Di Nardo, Antonello; King, Donald P. (Wiley, 2022-09)This report describes the molecular characterization of a serotype O foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) recovered from a field outbreak in the Zambezi region, Namibia during July 2021. Sequence analysis demonstrates ...
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Woma, Timothy Yusufu; Van Vuuren, Moritz; Bosman, Anna-Mari; Quan, Melvyn; Oosthuizen, Marinda C.; Bwala, Dauda Garba; Ibu, John O.; Ularamu, H.G. (Hussaini Gulak); Shamaki, D. (Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association, 2010)Canine distemper virus (CDV) is a highly contagious viral pathogen of worldwide distribution that can cause lethal disease in domestic dogs and other members of the family Canidae. Genetic diversity is found among reference ...
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Banda, Frank; Ludi, Anna B.; Wilsden, Ginette; Browning, Clare; Kangwa, Henry L.; Mooya, Lynnfield; Ngoma, Masuzyo; Muuka, Geoffrey M.; Mundia, Cornelius; Fandamu, Paul; Paton, David J.; King, Donald P.; Quan, Melvyn (MDPI, 2023-12-05)The recent introduction of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus serotype O (O/EA-2 topotype) in Southern Africa has changed the epidemiology of the disease and vaccine requirements of the region. Commercial and subsistence ...
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Akwongo, Claire Julie; Quan, Melvyn; Byaruhanga, Charles (MDPI, 2022-01-02)Peste des petits ruminants (PPR), a disease caused by small ruminant morbillivirus (SRM), is highly contagious with high morbidity and mortality. Controlling PPR requires a proper understanding of the epidemiological ...
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Ameh, Veronica Odinya; Chirima, Johannes George; Quan, Melvyn; Sabeta, Claude (MDPI, 2022-08-26)Rabies is a neglected disease endemic in Asia and Africa but is still a significant public and veterinary health threat. Whilst a key delicacy for the local diet, bats are a natural reservoir host for many viral zoonotic ...
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Arega, Sintayehu; Conan, Anne; Sabeta, Claude Taurai; Crafford, Jan Ernst; Wentzel, Jeanette Maria; Reininghaus, Bjorn; Biggs, Louise Joanne; Leisewitz, Andrew L.; Quan, Melvyn; Toka, Felix; Knobel, Darryn Leslie (MDPI, 2020-03)To achieve global elimination of human rabies from dogs by 2030, evidence-based strategies for effective dog vaccination are needed. Current guidelines recommend inclusion of dogs younger than 3 months in mass rabies ...
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Swanepoel, Hendrik; Crafford, Jan Ernst; Quan, Melvyn (MDPI, 2021-01-22)BACKGROUND: Viral diseases are important as they can cause significant clinical disease in both wild and domestic animals, as well as in humans. They also make up a large proportion of emerging infectious diseases. METHODS ...
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Woma, Timothy Yusufu; Ekong, Pius S.; Bwala, Dauda G.; Ibu, John O.; Ta’ama, Louisa; Dyek, Dyek Y.; Saleh, Ladi; Shamaki, David; Kalla, Demo J.U.; Bailey, Dalan; Kazeem, Haruna M.; Quan, Melvyn (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2016-03-11)Peste des petits ruminants, caused by the peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV), is a highly contagious and economically important transboundary viral disease of domestic and wild small ruminants and a major hindrance ...
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De Klerk, Joanna N.; Quan, Melvyn; Grewar, John Duncan (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2020-04-16)In the Cape Flats townships, Cape Town, South Africa, there are more than 250 working cart horses. They serve the community with scrap metal and garden refuse removal, human transport and the selling of goods. A questionnaire ...
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