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Browsing 2003 Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, Volume 70, 2003 by Title
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Webb, E.C. (Edward Cottington); Ker, James A.; Bekker, P.A .; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Pretoria : Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the University of Pretoria, Faculty of Veterinary Science, 2003)
Memory is a property common to a diverse range of tissues. Cardiac memory has been demonstrated in the human, dog, rat and rabbit. This is a peculiar phenomenon reflected in the T wave of the electrocardiogram. The heart ...
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Zweygarth, Erich; Josemans, A.I.; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria., 2003)
The Welgevonden stock of Ehrlichia ruminantium, aetiological agent of heartwater, was propagated in baby hamster kidney (BHK) cells, Chinese hamster ovary (CHO-K1) cells and Madin Darby bovine kidney (MDBK) cells. The ...
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Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Swanepoel, Robert; Williams, R.; Cohen, A.S.; Grobbelaar, Antoinette A.; Croft, J.E.; Gerdes, Gertruida Hermanna; Wright, Isabel M.; Van Dijk, A.A.; Smith, S.J.; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria., 2003)
An indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (I-ELISA) for the detection of specific IgG immunoglobulins against Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) was validated in-house. A total of 3055 sera from sheep (n = 1 159), goats ...
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Sharma, S.P.; Baipoledi, E.K.; Nyange, J.F.C.; Tlagae, L.; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria., 2003)
The prevalence of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii and Chlamydia psittaci was assessed in goats
with a history of abortion, stillbirth and neonatal mortality. Antibodies were detected in 540 (30%)
and 57 (3.2%) goats out ...
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Horak, Ivan Gerard; MacIvor, K.M. de F.; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria., 2003)
At monthly intervals from February 1983 to January 1984 two Angora goats, two Boer goats, one grysbok, Raphicerus melanotis, one common duiker, Sylvicapra grimmia, one greater kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, and four scrub ...
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Tonui, W.K.; Mpoke, S.S.; Orago, A.S.; Turco, S.J.; Mbati, P.A.; Mkoji, G.M.; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Pretoria : Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the University of Pretoria, Faculty of Veterinary Science, 2003)
The efficacy of Leishmania donovani-derived lipophosphoglycan (LPG) plus Mycobacterium bovis
Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) as a vaccine candidate against visceral leishmaniosis in susceptible
BALB/c mouse and Syrian ...
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Van Vuuren, Moritz; Kabongo, N.; Baule, C.; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Pretoria : Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the University of Pretoria, Faculty of Veterinary Science, 2003)
The presence of bovine viral diarrhoea virus in South Africa has been confirmed by several serological
surveys. However, little is known about its biological properties. Twenty five isolates obtained
by isolation in ...
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Groenewald, Hermanus B.; Ohale, L.O.C.; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria., 2003)
A morphological study of the structures of the antebrachiocarpal (AC) joint of the cheetah was carried out by dissection of eight forelimbs obtained from four adult cheetahs culled from the Kruger National Park, Republic ...
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Matete, G.O.; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Pretoria : Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the University of Pretoria, Faculty of Veterinary Science, 2003)
Domestic dogs were screened for Trypanosoma brucei infection using the haematocrit centrifugation technique as part of routine active surveillance exercises in the Busia and Teso districts of Kenya.
The purpose was to ...
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Horak, Ivan Gerard; Braack, L.E.O.; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik; Gallivan, Gordon J.; De Vos, Valerius; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria., 2003)
Ectoparasites were collected from impalas, Aepyceros melampus, at four localities within the Kruger National Park, namely Skukuza, in the Biyamiti region, Crocodile Bridge and Pafuri. Animals were also examined at Skukuza ...
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Horak, Ivan Gerard; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria., 2003)
At monthly intervals for periods ranging from 9 to 25 consecutive months between three and four Merino yearling-sheep and two Merino lambs on three farms in Eastern Cape Thornveld, and two Dorper yearling-sheep on a farm ...
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Horak, Ivan Gerard; Matthee, Sonja; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria., 2003)
Ticks were collected at monthly intervals for 16 consecutive months from individual dogs by their owners in or close to the town of Stellenbosch, Western Cape Province. They were also collected for 27 consecutive months ...
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Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik; Durette-Desset, M-C.; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria., 2003)
Re-examination of Teladorsagia hamata (Monnig, 1932) Durette-Desset, 1989 reported from grey rhebuck, Pelea capreoIus (Forster, 1790) proved it to be a new species of Ostertagia Ransom, 1907. The new species, for which the ...
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Nel, Louis Hendrik; Gayo, V.; Romito, M.; Solari, M.A.; Viljoen, Gerrit Johannes; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria., 2003)
Bovine babesiosis is responsible for serious economic losses in Uruguay. Haemovaccines play an important role in disease prevention, but concern has been raised about their use. It is feared that the attenuated Babesia ...
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Belozerov, V.N.; Van Niekerk, D.J; Butler, H.J.B.; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Pretoria : Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the University of Pretoria, Faculty of Veterinary Science, 2003)
During winter populations of Argas arboreus from heronries of the cattle egret, Bubulcus ibis, in South Africa are composed of adults, with some predominance of males, and II-IV instar nymphs, in a state of diapause. The ...
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Mugunieri, G.L.; Murilla, G.A .; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria., 2003)
A household survey was conducted in 21 villages of Kwale district, Kenya, to assess farmers' trypanocidal drug use characteristics for treatment of bovine trypanosomosis and their relationship to drug effectiveness. ...
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Myburgh, E.; Nevill, E.M.; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria., 2003)
The medical, veterinary and economic importance of blackflies in South Africa, and the historical development of blackfly control programmes in various South African rivers, are reviewed in this paper. In 1996 it was ...
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Van Wyk, Jan Aucamp; Van Rensburg, L.J.; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria., 2003)
A large Schistosoma mattheei ovum containing two miracidia was recovered from a squash preparation of the liver of an experimentally infected hamster. When observed, the miracidia were motile and facing in opposite directions.
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Kumba, F.F.; Katjivena, H.; Kauta, G.; Lutaaya, E.; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Published jointly by the Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria., 2003)
As a more detailed continuation of a previous study, faecal samples for worm egg counts were collected per rectum from ten marked adult animals in selected flocks of goats, in each of six villages evenly spread out in the ...
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Knobel, Darryn Leslie; Liebenberg, A.; Du Toit, J.T.; Boomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
(Pretoria : Agricultural Research Council, ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute and the University of Pretoria, Faculty of Veterinary Science, 2003)
This study determined the proportion of captive juvenile and adult African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) that developed protective titres of rabies neutralising antibodies following ingestion of a chicken head bait/SAG-2 oral ...