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  • A competitive ELISA for the detection of group-specific antibody to equine encephalosis virus 
    Crafford, Jan Ernst; Guthrie, Alan John; Van Vuuren, Moritz; Mertens, Peter P.C.; Burroughs, J.N.; Howell, P.G.; Batten, C.A.; Hamblin, Christopher (Elsevier, 2011-06)
    Please read abstract in article.
  • Complete coding sequences of 23 South African domestic and wildlife rabies viruses 
    Sabeta, Claude Taurai; Mohale, Debrah; Phahladira, Baby; Ngoepe, Ernest Chuene; Van Schalkwyk, Antoinette; Mogano, Kgaogelo; Chirima, Johannes George; Suzuki, Toru; Makita, Kohei (American Society for Microbiology, 2020-09-17)
    South African rabies viruses originating from dogs and jackals (canid viruses) are closely related and highlight cross-species transmission events between the two canine species. Rabies due to the canid lyssavirus variant ...
  • Complete genome sequences of virus strains isolated from bottle A of the South African live attenuated bluetongue virus vaccine 
    Coetzee, Peter; Guthrie, Alan John; Ebersohn, Karen; Maclachlan, James N.; Ismail, Arshad; Van Schalkwyk, Antoinette; Venter, Estelle Hildegard (American Society for Microbiology, 2020-05-28)
    This is a report of the complete genome sequences of plaque-selected isolates of five virus strains included in bottle A of the South African Onderstepoort Biological Products commercial live attenuated bluetongue virus vaccine.
  • Confirmation of occurrence of Babesia vogeli in a dog in Windhoek, central Namibia 
    Penzhorn, Barend Louis; Vorster, Ilse; Redecker, Gernot; Oosthuizen, Marinda C. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2016-10)
    Although there is evidence of high seroprevalence of antibodies to Babesia spp. in dogs in central Namibia, clinical babesiosis is rarely diagnosed. Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato, the vector of Babesia vogeli, is ...
  • Congopain genes diverged to become specific to Savannah, Forest and Kilifi subgroups of Trypanosoma congolense, and are valuable for diagnosis, genotyping and phylogenetic inferences 
    Rodrigues, Adriana C.; Ortiz, Paola A.; Costa-Martins, André G.; Neves, L.C.B.G.D. (Luís); Garcia, Herakles A.; Alves, João M.P.; Camargo, Erney P.; Alfieri, Silvia C.; Gibson, Wendy; Teixeira, Marta M.G. (Elsevier, 2014-04)
    Trypanosoma congolense is the most important agent of nagana, a wasting livestock trypanosomosis in sub-Saharan Africa. This species is a complex of three subgroups (Savannah, Forest and Kilifi) that differ in virulence, ...
  • The conjunctival fungal microfora of horses in a North Queensland tropical environment and their in vitro susceptibilities to antifungal agents 
    Mo, Phu Mo; Picard, Jacqueline; Gummow, Bruce (Springer, 2023-09)
    Fungi are ubiquitous in the environment and part of the commensal microfora on the conjunctiva of equine eyes. North Queensland, being tropical, presents an ideal environment for fungi growth. When the cornea is injured, ...
  • Contamination of the environment by pathogenic bacteria in a livestock farm in Limpopo Province, South Africa 
    Chitura, T.; Shai, K.; Ncube, I.; Van Heerden, Henriette (ALÖKI Applied Ecological Research and Forensic Institute Ltd., 2019-02)
    The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence and diversity of pathogenic bacteria in the environment at a livestock farm in Limpopo Province. Environmental samples were collected from three sampling locations: ...
  • The contribution of veterinary medicine to public health and poverty reduction in developing countries 
    Muma, John B.; Mwacalimba, Kennedy K.; Munang’andu, Hetron M.; Matope, Gift; Jenkins, Akinbowale Olajide; Siamudaala, Victor M.; Mweene, Aaron S.; Marcotty, Tanguy (Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise G. Caporale, 2014)
    Few studies have explicitly examined the linkages between human health, animal disease control and poverty alleviation. This paper reviews the contribution that veterinary medicine can make to poverty alleviation in ...
  • Control of bovine brucellosis from persistently infected holdings using RB51 vaccination with test-and-slaughter : a comparative case report from a high incidence area in Portugal 
    Caetano, M.C.; Afonso, F.; Ribeiro, R.; Fonseca, A.P.; Abernethy, D.A. (Darrell); Boinas, F. (Wiley, 2016-02)
    Bovine brucellosis due to Brucella abortus infection causes significant reproduc-tive and production losses in cattle and is a major zoonosis. Eradication of this disease has proved difficult to achieve in Portugal where ...
  • Control of paratuberculosis : who, why and how. A review of 48 countries 
    Whittington, Richard; Donat, Karsten; Weber, Maarten F.; Kelton, David; Nielsen, Soren Saxmose; Eisenberg, Suzanne; Arrigoni, Norma; Juste, Ramon; Saez, Jose Luis; Dhand, Navneet; Santi, Annalisa; Michel, Anita Luise; Barkema, Herman; Kralik, Petr; Kostoulas, Polychronis; Citer, Lorna; Griffin, Frank; Barwell, Rob; Scatamburlo Moreira, Maria Aparecida; Slana, Iva; Koehler, Heike; Vir Singh, Shoor; Sang Yoo, Han; Chávez-Gris, Gilberto; Goodridge, Amador; Ocepek, Matjaz; Garrido, Joseba; Stevenson, Karen; Collins, Mike; Alonso, Bernardo; Cirone, Karina; Paolicchi, Fernando; Gavey, Lawrence; Rahman, Md Tanvir; De Marchin, Emmanuelle; Van Praet, Willem; Bauman, Cathy; Fecteau, Gilles; McKenna, Shawn; Salgado, Miguel; Fernandez-Silva, Jorge; Dziedzinska, Radka; Echeverría, Gustavo; Seppanen, Jaana; Thibault, Virginie; Fridriksdottir, Vala; Derakhshandeh, Abdolah; Haghkhah, Masoud; Ruocco, Luigi; Kawaji, Satoko; Momotani, Eiichi; Heuer, Cord; Norton, Solis; Cadmus, Simeon; Agdestein, Angelika; Kampen, Annette; Szteyn, Joanna; Frossling, Jenny; Schwan, Ebba; Caldow, George; Strain, Sam A.J.; Carter, Mike; Wells, Scott; Munyeme, Musso; Wolf, Robert; Gurung, Ratna; Verdugo, Cristobal; Fourichon, Christine; Yamamoto, Takehisa; Thapaliya, Sharada; Di Labio, Elena; Ekgatat, Monaya; Gil, Andres; Alesandre, Alvaro Nunez; Piaggio, Jose; Suanes, Alejandra; De Waard, Jacobus H. (BioMed Central, 2019-06-13)
    Paratuberculosis, a chronic disease affecting ruminant livestock, is caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP). It has direct and indirect economic costs, impacts animal welfare and arouses public ...
  • Cooking and drying as effective mechanisms in limiting the zoonotic effect of Mycobacterium bovis in beef 
    Van der Merwe, Mac; Bekker, J.L.; Van der Merwe, P.; Michel, Anita Luise (South African Veterinary Association, 2009-09)
    For this study 48 non-infected muscle, lymphatic and visceral bovine tissue samples were collected from an approved red meat abattoir and spiked with 8 ×107cfu/m of M. bovis. The different spiked samples were subjected to ...
  • Correlation between Babesia species affecting dogs in Taiwan and the local distribution of the vector ticks 
    Su, Bi-Ling; Liu, Pin-Chen; Fang, Jou-Chien; Jongejan, Frans (MDPI, 2023-03)
    The objective of our study was to survey Babesia infection rates by PCR and tick species on stray dogs to correlate the distribution of Babesia with the distribution of ticks infesting dogs in Taiwan. Three hundred ...
  • A correlation between capsid protein VP2 and the plaque morphology of African horse sickness virus in cell culture 
    Schade-Weskott, Mathilde L.; Van Schalkwyk, Antoinette; Koekemoer, J.J.O. (Springer, 2018-08)
    The attenuated live virus vaccine that is used in South Africa to protect against African horse sickness infection was developed more than 50 years ago. With the selection of the vaccine strains by cell culture passage, a ...
  • COVID-19 : current status and future prospects 
    Leggat, Peter A.; Frean, John; Blumberg, Lucille (MDPI, 2023-01-31)
    No abstract available.
  • The COVID-19 crisis in South Africa : protecting the vulnerable 
    Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Jassat, Waasila; Mendelson, Marc; Cohen, Cheryl (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2020-09)
    As of 3 July 2020, global cases of COVID-19 surpassed 10 million with over half a million deaths in more than 210 countries. South Africa (SA) too reached a milestone last week, recording a total of 100 000 laboratory-confirmed ...
  • COVID-19 in Nigeria : why continuous spike in cases? 
    Otekunrin, Olutosin Ademola; Fasina, Folorunso Oludayo; Omotayo, Abiodun Olusola; Otekunrin, Oluwaseun Aramide; Akram, Muhammad (Wolters KluwerMedknow, 2021-01)
    No abstract available.
  • COVID-19 vaccines under the international health regulations – we must use the WHO international certificate of vaccination or prophylaxis 
    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 ...
  • Coxiella burnetii in humans, domestic ruminants, and ticks in rural Western Kenya 
    Knobel, Darryn Leslie; Maina, Alice N.; Cutler, Sally J.; Ogola, Eric; Feikin, Daniel R.; Junghae, Muthoni; Halliday, Jo E.B.; Richards, Allen L.; Breiman, Robert F.; Cleaveland, Sarah; Njenga, M. Kariuki (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2013-02-04)
    We conducted serological surveys for Coxiella burnetii in archived sera from patients that visited a rural clinic in western Kenya from 2007 to 2008 and in cattle, sheep, and goats from the same area in 2009. We also ...
  • Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever presenting with undiagnosed chronic myeloid leukaemia 
    Coetzee, Marius J.; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Leman, Pat; Swanepoel, Robert; De Kock, Andre (Medpharm Publications, NISC (Pty) Ltd, Taylor and Francis, and Informa business, 2017)
    A patient with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) presented with a high white cell count and splenomegaly. Underlying chronic myeloid leukaemia was diagnosed. The management of this complex case was difficult, and ...
  • Cross reactive immune responses in cattle arising from exposure to Mycobacterium bovis and non-tuberculous mycobacteria 
    Jenkins, Akinbowale Olajide; Gormley, Eamonn; Gcebe, Nomakorinte; Fosgate, Geoffrey Theodore; Conan, Anne; Aagaard, Claus Sindbjerg; Michel, Anita Luise; Rutten, Victor P.M.G. (Elsevier, 2018-04)
    Accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis in cattle may be compromised in areas where there are high rates of exposure to environmental/non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). This cross reaction of immune responses to Mycobacterium ...