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Browsing Research Articles (Veterinary Tropical Diseases) by Author "Faber, Erika"
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Faber, Erika; Tshilwane, Selaelo Ivy; Van Kleef, Mirinda; Pretorius, Alri
(Elsevier, 2022-01)
Expanding on our previous work, this study used transcriptome analysis of RNA sequences to investigate the various factors that contributed to either inducing apoptosis that resulted in cell death or promoting the survival ...
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Faber, Erika; Van Schalkwyk, Antoinette; Tshilwane, Selaelo Ivy; Van Kleef, Mirinda; Pretorius, Alri
(Elsevier, 2024-01)
The viral proteins VP1-1, VP2, VP4, VP7 and NS3, of African horse sickness virus serotype 4 (AHSV4), have previously been identified to contain CD8+ T cell epitopes. In this study, overlapping peptides spanning the entire ...
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Faber, Erika; Tshilwane, Selaelo Ivy; Van Kleef, Mirinda; Pretorius, Alri
(Elsevier, 2022-12)
Transcriptome analysis was used to characterise the in vitro primary and secondary immune responses induced in horse peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) stimulated for 24 h with the individual recombinant proteins ...
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Liebenberg, Junita; Steyn, Helena C.; Josemans, Antoinette I.; Faber, Erika; Zweygarth, Erich
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2020-06-24)
Three isolates of Ehrlichia ruminantium (Kümm 2, Omatjenne and Riverside), the causative
agent of heartwater in domestic ruminants, were isolated in Ixodes scapularis (IDE8) tick cell
cultures using the leukocyte fraction ...
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Faber, Erika; Tshilwane, Selaelo Ivy; Van Kleef, Mirinda; Pretorius, Alri
(Elsevier, 2021-07)
African horse sickness (AHS) is caused by African horse sickness virus (AHSV), a double stranded RNA (dsRNA) virus of the genus Orbivirus, family Reoviridae. For the development of new generation AHS vaccines or antiviral ...