Petersen, Eskild; Lucey, Daniel; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Kramer, Laura D.; Al-Abri, Seif; Lee, Shui Shan; De Castro Abreu Pinto, Tatiana; Obiero, Christina W.; Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.; Yapi, Richard; Abubakar, Aisha; Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah; Holmes, Allison; Chen, Lin H.(Elsevier, 2021-01)
The
first vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 have now received
emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), European Medicines Agency (EMA) and
national authorities in China, India, UK, and ...
Snyman, Jumari; Koekemoer, Otto; Van Schalkwyk, Antoinette; Van Vuren, Petrus Jansen; Snyman, Louwtjie P.; Williams, June; Venter, Marietjie(MDPI, 2021-03)
Equine encephalosis virus (EEV) is a neglected virus endemic to South Africa and is
considered to generally result in mild disease in equines. Specimens were analyzed from live horses
that presented with undefined ...
Odendaal, Lieza; Davis, A. Sally; Venter, Estelle Hildegard(MDPI, 20-04)
Rift Valley fever phlebovirus (RVFV) infects humans and a wide range of ungulates and
historically has caused devastating epidemics in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Lesions of
naturally infected cases of Rift Valley ...
Hoornweg, Tabitha E.; Schaftenaar, Willem; Maurer, Gilles; Van den Doel, Petra B.; Molenaar, Fieke M.; Chamouard-Galante, Alexandre; Vercammen, Francis; De Haan, Cornelis A. M.; Rutten, Victor P.M.G.; De Haan, Cornelis A.M.(MDPI, 2021-02)
Elephant endotheliotropic herpesviruses (EEHVs) may cause acute, often lethal, hemorrhagic disease (EEHV-HD) in young elephants. Prevalence of EEHV in different elephant populations
is still largely unknown. In order to ...
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 ...
Hassan, Ibrahim Zubairu; Wandrag, Buks; Gouws, Johan J.; Qekwana, Daniel Nenene; Naidoo, Vinny(Veterinary World, 2021-10)
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and recently mobilized colistin resistance (mcr-1) associated
colistin resistance among Escherichia coli isolates have been attributed to the overuse of antimicrobials ...
Meijerink, Nathalie; De Oliveira, Jean E.; Van Haarlem, Daphne A.; Hosotani, Guilherme; Lamot, David M.; Stegeman, J. Arjan; Jansen, Christine A.; Rutten, Victor P.M.G.; Jansen, Christine A.(MDPI, 2021-06)
Restrictions on the use of antibiotics in the poultry industry stimulate the development of
alternative nutritional solutions to maintain or improve poultry health. This requires more insight
in the modulatory effects ...
Netherlands, Edward C.; Stroebel, Carlie; Du Preez, Louis H.; Shabangu, Ntji; Matjila, Paul Tshepo; Van Schalkwyk, Ockert Louis; Penzhorn, Barend Louis(Elsevier, 2021-04)
Reports in the literature indicate that species of Hepatozoon commonly occur in African wild dog (AWD) or
painted wolf (Lycaon pictus) populations. These findings were based on examination of blood smears by microscopy,
and ...
Despite being a parasitic disease known since ancient times, some epidemiological aspects of cystic echinococcosis
(CE) remain unclear. Many studies describe its prevalence and genotyping in populations of domestic
animals ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc around the globe and caused significant disruptions across multiple domains. Moreover, different countries have been differentially impacted by COVID-19 — a phenomenon that is due ...
Grewar, John Duncan; Kotze, Johann L.; Parker, Beverly J.; Van Helden, Lesley S.; Weyer, Camilla Theresa(Public Library of Science, 2021-05)
South Africa is endemic for African horse sickness (AHS), an important health and tradesensitive disease of equids. The country is zoned with movement control measures facilitating an AHS-free controlled area in the ...
Bodenham, Rebecca F.; MazeriI, Stella; Cleaveland, Sarah; CrumpI, John A.; Fasina, Folorunso Oludayo; De Glanville, William A.; Haydon, Daniel T.; Kazwala, Rudovick R.; Kibona, Tito J.; Maro, Venance P.; Maze, Michael J.; Mmbaga, Blandina T.; Mtui-Malamsha, Niwael J.; Shirima, Gabriel M.; Swai, Emanuel S.; Thomas, Kate M.; deC. Bronsvoort, Barend M.; DeC. Bronsvoort, Barend M.; Halliday, Jo E. B.(Public Library of Science, 2021-08)
BACKGROUND : Brucellosis is a neglected zoonosis endemic in many countries, including regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Evaluated diagnostic tools for the detection of exposure to Brucella spp. are important for disease ...
BACKGROUND: In the 1980s and 1990s, great strides were taken towards the elimination of tsetse and animal African
trypanosomiasis (AAT) in Zimbabwe. However, advances in recent years have been limited. Previously freed ...
Julius, Rolanda Sunayé; Zengeya, Tsungai Alfred; Schwan, Ernst Volker; Chimimba, Christian Timothy(Frontiers Media, 2021-06)
Poor socio-economic and unsanitary conditions are conducive to commensal rodent
infestations, and these conditions are widespread in South Africa. Cestode species of
zoonotic interest are highly prevalent in commensal ...
Babesiosis is a worldwide, tick-borne disease of economic importance in livestock
caused by Babesia spp., which are hemoparasitic piroplasms that target the host
erythrocytes. Cattle, dogs, small ruminants, and wild ...
African swine fever (ASF) is one of the most threatening diseases for the pig farming
sector worldwide. Prevention, control and eradication remain a challenge, especially in
the absence of an effective vaccine or cure ...
Reck, Jose; Webster, Anelise; Dall’Agnol, Bruno; Pienaar, Ronel; De Castro, Minique H.; Featherston, Jonathan; Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes)(Frontiers Media, 2021-08-06)
Tick salivary glands produce and secrete a variety of compounds that modulate host responses and ensure a successful blood meal. Despite great progress made in the identification of ticks salivary compounds in recent years, ...
Theileria parva is a protozoan parasite transmitted by the brown-eared ticks,
Rhipicephalus appendiculatus and Rhipicephalus zambeziensis. Buffaloes are the
parasite’s ancestral host, with cattle being the most recent ...
Penzhorn, Barend Louis; Schoeman, Tanya; Jacobson, Linda S.(Japanese Society of Veterinary Parasitology, 2006)
Babesia felis originally described from wild cats in the Sudan was subsequently incriminated as causing clinical disease
in domestic cats. Although babesiosis in domestic cats has been reported sporadically from various ...