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Browsing Research Articles (Veterinary Tropical Diseases) by UP Author "Allsopp, Basil A."
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Zhang, L.; Hu, Min; Jones, A.; Allsopp, Basil A.; Beveridge, Ian; Schindler, A.R.; Gasser, Robin B.
(Elsevier, 2007-10)
In the present study, we have extended earlier taxonomic, biochemical and experimental investigations to characterize two species of Taenia from carnivores in Kenya by use of the sequences of a variable domain (D1) of ...
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Allsopp, M.T.E.P.; Van Strijp, M.F.; Faber, F.E.; Josemans, A.I.; Allsopp, Basil A.
(Elsevier, 2007-02)
In 1994 a batch of apparently healthy goats was selected for intended export to the USA from a heartwater-free and vector tick-free region of South Africa. The animals were tested serologically for heartwater, using either ...
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Allsopp, M.T.E.P.; Allsopp, Basil A.
(Elsevier, 2007-09)
The intracellular bacterium Ehrlichia ruminantium is the causative agent of heartwater throughout sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, and some islands of the Caribbean. The disease is tick-borne and causes substantial livestock ...
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Allsopp, Basil A.
(International Office of Epizootics, 2015)
Heartwater is a notifiable disease that is listed by the World Organisation for Animal
Health. It is caused by Ehrlichia ruminantium, an obligately intracellular Gramnegative
bacterium in the order Rickettsiales and the ...
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Liebenberg, Junita; Faber, F.E.; Collins, Nicola E.; Allsopp, Basil A.; Van Kleef, Mirinda
(Elsevier, 2012-01)
Ehrlichia ruminantium is an obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen which causes heartwater,
a serious tick-borne disease of ruminants throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The
development of promising recombinant vaccines ...
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Oosthuizen, Marinda C.; Allsopp, Basil A.; Troskie, Milana; Collins, Nicola E.; Penzhorn, Barend Louis
(Elsevier, 2009-07)
Blood specimens were received from five cases in which young adult giraffe, from different geographic origins in South Africa, showed sudden onset of disease and subsequently died. Additional specimens from two translocated ...
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Allsopp, Basil A.
(Elsevier, 2010-02)
Ehrlichia ruminantium is an obligately intra-cellular "-proteobacterium which causes a
disease known as heartwater or cowdriosis in some wild, and all domestic, ruminants.
The organism is transmitted by ticks of the genus ...
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Pretorius, Alri; Collins, Nicola E.; Steyn, H.C.; Van Strijp, M.F.; Van Kleef, Mirinda; Allsopp, Basil A.
(Elsevier, 2007-03-08)
We have reported previously that a recombinant DNA vaccine consisting of four Ehrlichia ruminantium (Welgevonden) open reading frames (ORFs) known as the 1H12 cocktail provided protection against a virulent E. ruminantium ...
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Allsopp, Basil A.
(Agricultural Research Council, ARC-OVI and the University of Pretoria, 2009-03)
Heartwater is an economically serious tick-borne disease of ruminants caused by the intracellular bacterium Ehrlichia ruminantium. The disease has traditionally been controlled by four different approaches : controlling ...