• The bacterial and fungal microbiome of the skin of healthy dogs and dogs with atopic dermatitis and the impact of topical antimicrobial therapy, an exploratory study 

  Chermprapai, Suttiwee; Ederveen, Thomas H.A.; Broere, Femke; Broens, Els M.; Schlotter, Yvette M.; Van Schalkwijk, Saskia; Boekhorst, Jos; van Hijum, Sacha A.F.T.; Rutten, Victor P.M.G. (Elsevier, 2019-02)

  Canine atopic dermatitis is a genetically predisposed inflammatory and pruritic allergic skin disease that is often complicated by (secondary) bacterial and fungal (yeast) infections. High-throughput DNA sequencing was ...
• Seroprevalence and characterization of Brucella species in cattle slaughtered at Gauteng abattoirs, South Africa 

  Kolo, Francis Babaman; Adesiyun, Abiodun Adewale; Fasina, Folorunso Oludayo; Katsande, Charles T.; Dogonyaro, Banenat Bajehson; Potts, Andrew; Matle, Itumeleng; Gelaw, Awoke K.; Van Heerden, Henriette (Wiley, 2019-11)

  BACKGROUND: Brucellosis is an infectious and contagious zoonotic bacterial disease of both humans and animals. In developing countries where brucellosis is endemic, baseline data on the prevalence of brucellosis, using ...
• Evaluating African horse sickness virus in horses and field-caught Culicoides biting midges on the East Rand, Gauteng Province, South Africa 

  Craig, Anthony Francis; Packer, G.C. (Glenn); Guthrie, Alan John; Venter, Estelle Hildegard (Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise G. Caporale, 2019)

  A prospective study was undertaken during 2013 and 2014, to determine the prevalence of African horse sickness virus (AHSV) in Culicoides midges and the incidence of infection caused by the virus in 28 vaccinated resident ...
• New filovirus disease classification and nomenclature 

  Kuhn, Jens H.; Adachi, Takuya; Adhikari, Neill K.J.; Arribas, Jose R.; Bah, Ibrahima E.; Bausch, Daniel G.; Bhadelia, Nahid; Borchert, Matthias; Brantsæter, Arne Broch; Brett-Major, David M.; Burgess, Timothy H.; Castro-Ria, Lado Marta; Chertow, Daniel S.; Chute, Christopher G.; Cieslak, Theodore J.; Colebunders, Robert; Crozier, Ian; Davey, Richard T.; De Clerck, Hilde; Delgado, Rafael; Evans, Laura; Fallah, Mosoka; Fischer, William A.; II, Fischer; Fletcher, Tom E.; Fowler, Robert A.; Grunewald, Thomas; Hall, Andy; Hewlett, Angela; Hoepelman, Andy I.M.; Houlihan. Catherine F.; Ippolito, Giuseppe; Jacob, Shevin T.; Jacobs, Michael; Jakob, Robert; Jacquerioz, Frederique A.; Kaiser, Laurent; Kalil, Andre C.; Kamara, Rashidatu F.; Kapetshi, Jimmy; Klenk, Hans-Dieter; Kobinger, Gary; Kortepeter, Mark G.; Kraft, Colleen S.; Kratz, Thomas; Bosa, Henry S. Kyobe; Lamontagne, Francois; Lane, H. Cliff; Lobel, Leslie; Lutwama, Julius; III, G. Marshall Lyon; Massaquoi, Moses B.F.; Massaquoi, Thomas A.; Mehta, Aneesh K.; Makuma, Vital Mondonge; Murthy, Srinivas; Musoke, Tonny Seikikongo; Muyembe-Tamfum, Jean-Jacques; Nakyeyune, Phiona; Nanclares, Carolina; Nanyunja, Miriam; Nsio-Mbeta, Justus; O’Dempsey, Tim; Pawęska, Janusz T.; Peters, Clarence J.; Piot, Peter; Rapp, Christophe; Renaud, Bertrand; Ribner, Bruce; Sabeti, Pardis C.; Schieffelin, John S.; Slenczka, Werner; Soka, Moses J.; Sprecher, Armand; Strong, James; Swanepoel, Robert; Uyeki, Timothy M.; Van Herp, Michel; Vetter, Pauline; Wohl, David A.; Wolf, Timo; Wolz, Anja; Wurie, Alie H.; Yoti, Zabulon (Nature Research, 2019-05)

  The recent large outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Western Africa resulted in greatly increased accumulation of human genotypic, phenotypic and clinical data, and improved our understanding of the spectrum of clinical ...
• Differences between Staphylococcus aureus lineages isolated from ovine and caprine mastitis but not between isolates from clinical or subclinical mastitis 

  Hoekstra, Jurriaan; Rutten, Victor P.M.G.; Van den Hout, M.; Spaninks, Mirlin P.; Benedictus, Lindert; Koop, G. (Elsevier, 2019-06)

  Staphylococcus aureus is an important mastitis pathogen, causing both clinical mastitis (CM) and subclinical mastitis (SCM) in small ruminants. In general, CM has a low incidence in sheep and goats but can be very severe ...
• Risk factors for bacterial zoonotic pathogens in acutely febrile patients in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa 

  Berrian, Amanda M.; Martínez-Lopez, Beatriz; Quan, Vanessa; Conrad, Patricia A.; Van Rooyen, Jacques; Simpson, Gregory J.G.; Frean, John; Weyer, Jacqueline; Rossouw, Jennifer; Knobel, Darryn Leslie; Blumberg, Lucille (Wiley, 2019-08)

  Endemic zoonoses, such as Q fever and spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiosis, are prevalent in South Africa, yet often undiagnosed. In this study, we reviewed the demographics and animal exposure history of patients ...
• Investigations into the carrier-state of Theileria sp. (buffalo) in cattle 

  Pienaar, Ronel; Troskie, Christo; Josemans, Antoinette I.; Potgieter, Fred T.; Maboko, Boitumelo B.; Latif, Abdalla A.; Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes) (Elsevier, 2020-04)

  The Theileria are apicomplexan parasites transmitted by ticks to vertebrate hosts. Most Theileria species exhibit some form of host or vector specificity, since under endemic conditions only a limited number of tick species ...
• Genomic sequence data and single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping of Bacillus anthracis strains isolated from animal anthrax outbreaks in Northern Cape Province, South Africa 

  Lekota, Kgaugelo Edward; Hassim, Ayesha; Van Heerden, Henriette (Elsevier, 2020-02)

  This report presents genomic data on sequence reads and draft genomes of Bacillus anthracis isolates from anthrax outbreaks in animals in an endemic region of South Africa as well as genotyping of the strains using ...
• Leucinostatin acts as a co-inducer for heat shock protein 70 in cultured canine retinal pigment epithelial cells 

  Lyu, Qingkang; Ludwig, Irene S.; Kooten, Peter J.S.; Sijts, Alice J.A.M.; Rutten, Victor P.M.G.; Van Eden, Willem; Broere, Femke (Springer, 2020-03)

  Dysregulation of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells is the main cause of a variety of ocular diseases. Potentially heat shock proteins, by preventing molecular and cellular damage and modulating inflammatory disease, ...
• Effect of indigenous slaughter methods on the behavioural response, bleeding efficiency and cardiac arrest of Nguni goats 

  Mdletshe, Zwelethu Mfanafuthi; Marufu, Munyaradzi Christopher; Chimonyo, Michael (MDPI Publishing, 2020-02-04)

  Resource-limited farmers slaughter goats without stunning. The objective of the current study was to assess the influence of indigenous slaughter methods used by resource-limited households on slaughter stress-related ...
• Expanding our knowledge on African trypanosomes of the subgenus Pycnomonas : a novel Trypanosoma suis-like in tsetse flies, livestock and wild ruminants sympatric with Trypanosoma suis in Mozambique 

  Rodrigues, Carla M.F.; Garcia, Herakles A.; Rodrigues, Adriana C.; Pereira, Dagmar Lopes; Pereira, Carlos Lopes; Viola, Laerte B.; Neves, L.C.B.G.D. (Luís); Camargo, Erney P.; Gibson, Wendy; Teixeira, Marta Maria Geraldes (Elsevier, 2020-03)

  Among the subgenera of African tsetse-transmitted trypanosomes pathogenic to livestock, the least known is the subgenus Pycnomonas, which contains a single species, Trypanosoma suis (TSU), a pathogen of domestic pigs first ...
• Wing length of tsetse caught by stationary and mobile sampling methods 

  Mweempwa, Cornelius; Mbewe, Njelembo J.; De Deken, Reginald (Elsevier, 2020-04)

  INTRODUCTION : A variety of techniques have been used to control tsetse with varying degrees of success. In a study on the population structure of Glossina fuscipes fuscipes that recovered after a previous vector control ...
• Activation of a bovine mammary epithelial cell line by ruminant-associated Staphylococcus aureus is lineage dependent 

  Hoekstra, Jurriaan; Rutten, Victor P.M.G.; Lam, Theo J.G.M.; Van Kessel, Kok P.M.; Stegeman, J. Arjan; Benedictus, Lindert; Koop, Gerrit (MDPI, 2019-12-12)

  Bovine mastitis is a costly disease to the dairy industry and intramammary infections (IMI) with Staphylococcus aureus are a major cause of mastitis. Staphylococcus aureus strains responsible for mastitis in cattle ...
• Post-outbreak African horse sickness surveillance : a scenario tree evaluation in South Africa’s controlled area 

  Grewar, John Duncan; Porphyre, Thibaud; Sergeant, Evan S.; Weyer, Camilla Theresa; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.) (Wiley, 2020-04)

  An African horse sickness (AHS) outbreak occurred in March and April 2016 in the controlled area of South Africa. This extended an existing trade suspension of live equids from South Africa to the European Union. In the ...
• Anaplasma marginale outer membrane protein vaccine candidates are conserved in North American and South African strains 

  Hove, Paidashe; Brayton, Kelly A.; Liebenberg, Junita; Pretorius, Alri; Oosthuizen, Marinda C.; Noh, Susan Marite; Collins, Nicola E. (Elsevier, 2020-04)

  Bovine anaplasmosis is a globally economically important tick-borne disease caused by the obligate intraerythrocytic rickettsia, Anaplasma marginale. A live Anaplasma centrale blood-based vaccine is available, but it does ...
• Genetic and antigenic variation of the bovine tick‑borne pathogen Theileria parva in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa 

  Amzati, Gaston S.; Djikeng, Appolinaire; Odongo, David O.; Nimpaye, Herman; Sibeko-Matjila, K.P. (Kgomotso Penelope); Muhigwa, Jean‑Berckmans B.; Madder, Maxime; Kirschvink, Nathalie; Marcotty, Tanguy (BioMed Central, 2019-12-16)

  BACKGROUND : Theileria parva causes East Coast fever (ECF), one of the most economically important tick-borne diseases of cattle in sub-Saharan Africa. A live immunisation approach using the infection and treatment method ...
• Amblyomma hebraeum is the predominant tick species on goats in the Mnisi Community Area of Mpumalanga Province South Africa and is co-infected with Ehrlichia ruminantium and Rickettsia africae 

  Jongejan, Frans; Berger, Laura; Busser, Suzanne; Deetman, Iris; Jochems, Manon; Leenders, Tiffany; De Sitter, Barry; Van der Steen, Francine; Wentzel, Jeanette; Stoltsz, Hein (BioMed Central, 2020-04)

  BACKGROUND : In sub-Saharan Africa, Amblyomma ticks are vectors of heartwater disease in domestic ruminants, caused by the rickettsial pathogen Ehrlichia ruminantium. Immature tick stages often bite humans, whereby they ...
• Don't let sleeping dogs lie: unravelling the identity and taxonomy of Babesia canis, Babesia rossi and Babesia vogeli 

  Penzhorn, Barend Louis (BioMed Central, 2020-04)

  For most of the 20th century the causative agent of canine babesiosis, wherever it occurred in the world, was commonly referred to as Babesia canis. Early research, from the 1890s to the 1930s, had shown that there were ...
• Neutralizing antibodies against Rift Valley fever virus in wild antelope in far northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, indicate recent virus circulation 

  Van den Bergh, Carien; Venter, Estelle Hildegard; Swanepoel, Robert; Hanekom, Catharine C.; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.) (Wiley, 2020-01)

  Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a zoonotic viral disease of domestic ruminants in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula caused by a mosquito‐borne Phlebovirus. Outbreaks in livestock and humans occur after heavy rains favour breeding ...
• Occurrence and antimicrobial resistance profiles of Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter coli, and Campylobacter upsaliensis in beef cattle on cow-calf operations in South Africa 

  Karama, Musafiri; Kambuyi, Katembue; Cenci-Goga, Beniamino T.; Malahlela, M.N. (Mogaugedi); Jonker, Annelize; He, Cheng; Ombui, Jackson; Tshuma, Takula; Etter, Eric Marcel Charles; Kalake, Alan (Mary Ann Liebert , 2020-01)

  This study investigated occurrence and antimicrobial resistance profiles of Campylobacter spp. isolates in beef cattle on five cow–calf operations in South Africa. A total of 537 fecal samples from adult beef cattle (n = 435) ...

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