Browsing Research Articles (Centre for Veterinary Wildlife Studies) by Author "Boy, Sonja C."

Browsing Research Articles (Centre for Veterinary Wildlife Studies) by Author "Boy, Sonja C."

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  • Dental pathology in a wild serval (Leptailurus serval) population 
    Emslie, Roxanne S.; Zeiler, Gareth Edward; Loock, Daan; Boy, Sonja C.; Steenkamp, Gerhardus (Elsevier, 2020-10)
    Members of the family Felidae suffer from a wide range of dental, oral and maxillofacial conditions that can cause significant morbidity and mortality. Although many dental, oral and maxillofacial anomalies of the domestic ...
  • Dentigerous cyst in a South African fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) 
    Almansa Ruiz, Jose Carlos; Knox, Carol; Boy, Sonja C.; Steenkamp, Gerhardus (Wiley, 2020-06)
    The dental pathology of pinnipeds has been well studied with periodontal disease the most common dental pathology accounting for 19.4–91.8 per cent of all dental pathologies. An eight-month-old stranded South African fur ...
  • Focal palatitis (previously focal palatine erosions) in captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) 
    Steenkamp, Gerhardus; Boy, Sonja C.; Van Staden, Paul Jacobus; Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt (Frontiers Media, 2021-07-12)
    Focal palatine erosion (FPE) is a misleading term that is used in the literature to describe inflammatory lesions associated with depressions of the palatal mucosa in cheetah. Cheetahs have large cheek teeth and these ...