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  • Emerging tuberculosis pathogen hijacks social communication behavior in the group-living banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) 
    Alexander, Kathleen A.; Sanderson, Claire E.; Larsen, Michelle H.; Robbe-Austerman, Suelee; Williams, Mark C.; Palmer, Mitchell V. (American Society for Microbiology, 2016-05-10)
    An emerging Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) pathogen, M. mungi, infects wild banded mongooses (Mungos mungo) in Northern Botswana, causing significant mortality. This MTC pathogen did not appear to be ...
  • Endemic persistence of a highly contagious pathogen : foot-and-mouth disease in its wildlife host 
    Jolles, Anna; Gorsich, Erin; Gubbins, Simon; Beechler, Brianna; Buss, Peter Erik; Juleff, Nick; De Klerk-Lorist, Lin-Mari; Maree, Francois Frederick; Perez-Martin, Eva; Van Schalkwyk, Ockert Louis; Scott, Katherine; Zhang, Fuquan; Medlock, Jan; Charleston, Bryan (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2021-09)
    Extremely contagious pathogens are a global biosecurity threat because of their high burden of morbidity and mortality, as well as their capacity for fast-moving epidemics that are difficult to quell. Understanding the ...
  • Endemic type of animal trypanosomiasis is not associated with lower genotype variability of Trypanosoma congolense isolates circulating in livestock 
    Masumu, Justin; Geysen, Dirk; Van den Bossche, Peter (Elsevier, 2009-04)
    In order to verify whether the low impact on livestock production in endemic areas is related to a low number of trypanosome strains circulating in livestock, 37 Trypanosoma congolense isolates collected from cattle in 11 ...
  • An entry risk assessment of African horse sickness virus into the controlled area of South Africa through the legal movement of equids 
    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 ...
  • Epidemiology and genomic analysis of equine encephalosis virus detected in horses with clinical signs in South Africa, 2010-2017 
    Snyman, Jumari; Koekemoer, Otto; Van Schalkwyk, Antoinette; Van Vuren, Petrus Jansen; Snyman, Louwtjie P.; Williams, June Heather; 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 ...
  • Epidemiology of human rabies in South Africa, 2008-2018 
    Weyer, Jacqueline; Dermaux-Msimang, V.; Grobbelaar, A.; Le Roux, C.; Moolla, Naazneen; Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2020-09)
    BACKGROUND. Human rabies cases continue to be reported annually in South Africa (SA). Previous investigations have shown the association between the occurrence of human rabies cases and dog rabies cases in the ...
  • The epidemiology of lion lentivirus infection among a population of free-ranging lions (Panthera leo) in the Kruger National Park, South Africa 
    Adams, Hayley R.; Van Vuuren, Moritz; Bosman, Anna-Mari; Keet, D.F.; New, John; Kennedy, Melissa A. (South African Veterinary Association, 2009-09)
    Feline immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus of domestic cats that causes significant lifelong infection. Infection with this or similar lentiviruses has been detected in several nondomestic feline species, including ...
  • The epidemiology of tick-borne haemoparasites as determined by the reverse line blot hybridization assay in an intensively studied cohort of calves in western Kenya 
    Njiiri, Evalyne Nyawira; Bronsvoort, Barend Mark de Clare; Collins, Nicola E.; Steyn, Helena C.; Troskie, Milana; Vorster, Ilse; Mwangi, Thumbi S.; Sibeko-Matjila, Kgomotso Penelope; Jennings, Amy; Van Wyk, Ilana; Mbole-Kariuki, Mary Ndila; Kiara, Henry; Poole, Jane; Hanotte, Olivier; Coetzer, Jacobus A.W.; Oosthuizen, Marinda C.; Woolhouse, Mark E.J.; Toye, Philip G. (Elsevier, 2015-05)
    The development of sensitive surveillance technologies using PCR-based detection ofmicrobial DNA, such as the reverse line blot assay, can facilitate the gathering of epidemi-ological information on tick-borne diseases, ...
  • Epizootic haemorrhagic disease 
    MacLachlan, N.J. (James); Zientara, S.; Savini, G.; Daniels, P,W. (International Office of Epizootics, 2015)
    Epizootic haemorrhagic disease (EHD) is an arthropod-transmitted viral disease of certain wild ungulates, notably North American white-tailed deer and, more rarely, cattle. The disease in white-tailed deer results from ...
  • Epoxyscillirosidine induced cytotoxicity and ultrastructural changes in a rat embryonic cardiomyocyte (H9c2) cell line 
    Isa, Hamza Ibrahim; Ferreira, Gezina Catharina Helena; Crafford, Jan Ernst; Botha, C.J. (Christoffel Jacobus) (MDPI, 2019-05)
    Moraea pallida Bak. (yellow tulp) poisoning is the most important cardiac glycoside-induced intoxication in ruminants in South Africa. The toxic principle, 1α, 2α-epoxyscillirosidine, is a bufadienolide. To replace the use ...
  • Equine leptospirosis in tropical Northern Queensland 
    Wangdi, C.; Picard, J.; Tan, R.; Condon, F.; Dowling, B.; Gummow, Bruce (Wiley, 2013-05)
    OBJECTIVE : Determine leptospiral serodiversity, serodominant serovars and prevalence in the horse population of Northern Queensland (NQ), Australia, with special focus on the Atherton Tableland and Townsville–Burdekin ...
  • Eradication of transboundary animal diseases : can the rinderpest success story be repeated? 
    Thomson, G.R. (Gavin); Fosgate, Geoffrey Theodore; Penrith, Mary-Louise (Wiley, 2015)
    A matrix system was developed to aid in the evaluation of the technical amenability to eradication, through mass vaccination, of transboundary animal diseases (TADs). The system involved evaluation of three basic criteria ...
  • Erythrocyte morphology and haemoglobin types of neonatal roan antelopes (Hippotragus equinus) with hypochromic poikilocytic anaemia 
    Parsons, S.D.C.; Penzhorn, Barend Louis; Reyers, Fred; Steyl, Johan Christian Abraham; Becker, Piet J. (Elsevier, 2006)
    Neonatal, poikilocytic anaemia in some members of the Hippotragini has previously been documented but not fully investigated. This study was undertaken to describe the erythrocyte morphology of roan antelopes (Hippotragus ...
  • Establishment of selected baseline blood chemistry and hematologic parameters in captive and wild-caught African white-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) 
    Naidoo, Vinny; Diekmann, M.; Wolter, Kerri; Swan, Gerry E. (Wildlife Disease Association, 2008-07)
    Despite the devastating collapse of three vulture populations on the Asian subcontinent as a result of their exposure to diclofenac, there is little available information on the normal physiology of many vulture species, ...
  • Estimating the basic reproductive number (R0) for African swine fever virus (ASFV) transmission between pig herds in Uganda 
    Barongo, Mike B.; Stahl, Karl; Bett, Bernard; Bishop, Richard P.; Fevre, Eric M.; Aliro, Tony; Okoth, Edward; Masembe, Charles; Knobel, Darryn Leslie; Ssematimba, Amos; Elankumaran, Subbiah (Public Library of Science, 2015-05-04)
    African swine fever (ASF) is a highly contagious, lethal and economically devastating haemorrhagic disease of domestic pigs. Insights into the dynamics and scale of virus transmission can be obtained from estimates of ...
  • Estimating the global burden of endemic canine rabies 
    Hampson, Katie; Coudeville, Laurent; Lembo, Tiziana; Sambo, Maganga; Kieffer, Alexia; Attlan, Michael; Barrat, J.; Blanton, Jesse D.; Briggs, Deborah J.; Cleaveland, Sarah; Costa, Peter; Freuling, Conrad M.; Hiby, Elly F.; Knopf, Lea; Leanes, Fernando; Meslin, Francois-Xavier; Metlin, Artem; Miranda, Mary Elizabeth; Muller, Thomas; Nel, Louis Hendrik; Recuenco, Sergio; Rupprecht, Charles Edward; Schumacher, C.L.; Taylor, Louise; Vigilato, Marco Antonio Natal; Zinsstag, Jakob; Dushoff, Jonathan; Sa Carvalho, Marilia (Public Library of Science, 2015-04-16)
    Rabies is a fatal viral disease largely transmitted to humans from bites by infected animals —predominantly from domestic dogs. The disease is entirely preventable through prompt administration of post-exposure prophylaxis ...
  • European 1 : a globally important clonal complex of Mycobacterium bovis 
    Smith, Noel H.; Berg, Stefan; Dale, James; Allen, Adrian; Rodriguez, Sabrina; Romero, Beatriz; Matos, Filipa; Ghebremichael, Solomon; Karoui, Claudine; Donati, Chiara; Da Conceicao Machado, Adelina; Mucavele, Custodia; Kazwala, Rudovick R.; Hilty, Markus; Cadmus, Simeon I.B.; Ngandolo, Bongo Nare Richard; Habtamu, Meseret; Oloya, James; Muller, Annelle; Milian-Suazo, Feliciano; Feliciano, Olga; Projahn, Michaela; Barandiaran, Soledad; Macıas, Analia; Muller, Borna; Zanini, Marcos Santos; Ikuta, Cassia Yumi; Rodriguez, Cesar Alejandro Rosales; Pinheiro, Sonia Regina; Figueroa, Alvaro; Cho, Sang-Nae; Mosavari, Nader; Chuang, Pei-Chun; Jou, Ruwen (Elsevier, 2011-08)
    We have identified a globally important clonal complex of Mycobacterium bovis by deletion analysis of over one thousand strains from over 30 countries. We initially show that over 99% of the strains of M. bovis, the cause ...
  • 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 ...
  • Evaluating the brucellin skin test as an additional test to control bovine brucellosis 
    Nyanhongo, Nhamo; Hansen, Melinda; Nymo, Ingebjorg H.; Godfroid, Jacques; Michel, Anita Luise (Symbiosis Online Publishing, 2017-06-08)
    Brucellosis is a bacterial disease of high veterinary importance, besides being a significant zoonosis worldwide. It is characterised by variable, and at times long and latent, incubation periods, which makes its control ...
  • Evaluating the morphological and molecular challenges in identifying the afrotropical Atylotus species (Diptera: Tabanidae) 
    Williams, Kirstin A.; Smit, Andeliza; Neves, L.C.B.G.D. (Luís); Snyman, Louwtjie P. (Elsevier, 2022-02)
    The Afrotropical fly genus, Atylotus has previously shown little differentiation into species groups using the barcode gene COI. This study analysed all available Atylotus COI sequences from GenBank and BOLD to determine ...