Browsing Research Articles (Veterinary Tropical Diseases) by Subject "Host specificity"

Browsing Research Articles (Veterinary Tropical Diseases) by Subject "Host specificity"

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  • Analysis of large new South African dataset using two host-specificity indices shows generalism in both adult and larval ticks of mammals 
    Espinaze, Marcela P.A.; Hellard, Eléonore; Horak, Ivan Gerard; Cumming, Graeme S. (Cambridge University Press, 2016-03)
    Ticks and tick-borne pathogens can have considerable impacts on the health of livestock, wildlife and people. Knowledge of tick–host preferences is necessary for both tick and pathogen control. Ticks were historically ...
  • 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 ...
  • The quest for a true One Health perspective of brucellosis 
    Godfroid, Jacques; DeBolle, X.; Roop, R.M.; O'Callaghan, D.; Tsolis, R.M.; Baldwin, C.; Santos, R.L.; McGiven, J.; Olsen, S.; Nymo, I.H.; Larsen, A.; Al Dahouk, S.; Letesson, J.J. (International Office of Epizootics, 2014)
    One Health is an interdisciplinary collaboration that aims at mitigating risks to human health arising from microorganisms present in non-human animal species, which have the potential to be transmitted and cause disease ...