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Browsing Research Articles (Paraclinical Sciences) by Title
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Heljanko, Viivi; Karama, Musafiri; Kymäläinen, Amanda; Kurittu, Paula; Johansson, Venla; Tiwari, Ananda; Nyirenda, Matteo; Malahlela, Mogaugedi N.; Heikinheimo, Annamari
(Frontiers Media, 2024-10)
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant global One Health challenge
that causes increased mortality and a high financial burden. Animal production
contributes to AMR, as more than half of antimicrobials are ...
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Dabrowski, Jacqueline; Oberholster, Paul Johan; Dabrowski, J.M.
(Water Research Council, 2014)
Increasing demands for water, discharge of effluents, and variable rainfall have a negative impact on water quality in the Olifants River. Crocodile and fish mortalities attributed to pansteatitis, in Loskop Dam and ...
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Matshe, William M.R.; Tshweu, Lesego L.; Mvango, Sindisiwe; Cele, Zamani E.D.; Chetty, Avashnee S.; Pilcher, Lynne A.; Famuyide, Ibukun Michael; McGaw, Lyndy Joy; Taylor, Dale; Gibhard, Liezl; Basarab, Gregory S.; Balogun, Mohammed O.
(Wiley, 2023-05)
Uncomplicated malaria is effectively treated with oral artemisinin-based
combination therapy (ACT). Yet, there is an unmet clinical need for the
intravenous treatment of the more fatal severe malaria. There is no
combination ...
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Steyn, Jumari; Botha, Elizabeth; Stivaktas, Voula; Buss, Peter Erik; Beechler, Brianna R.; Myburgh, Jan G.; Steyl, Johan Christian Abraham; Williams, June Heather; Venter, Marietjie
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019-12)
West Nile virus (WNV) lineage 2 is associated with neurologic disease in horses and humans in South Africa. Surveillance in wildlife and nonequine domestic species during 2010–2018 identified WNV in 11 (1.8%) of 608 animals ...
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Botha, C.J. (Christoffel Jacobus); Van Wyk, Abraham Erasmus (Braam)
(Medpharm Publications, 2022)
Changes over the past five decades in the scientific names of some potentially poisonous plants and toxigenic fungi in South
Africa are briefly reviewed. Some of the reasons why taxonomists change names are highlighted. ...
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Pauw, Elizabeth Lita; Eloff, Jacobus Nicolaas
(BioMed Central, 2014-08-27)
BACKGROUND: The study randomly screened leaf extracts of several hundred southern African tree species against
important microbial pathogens to determine which taxa have the highest activity and may yield useful products ...
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O'Dell, Nicolize; O'Dell, Jacques Henry; Van der Weyden, L.
(Medpharm Publications, 2022)
A six-year-old intact male Southern African hedgehog (Atelerix frontalis) presented with a history of chronic mild to moderate
weight loss, and sub-acute hind limb ataxia that progressed to complete paralysis, at which ...
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Shai, Leshweni Jeremia; Masoko, Peter; Mokgotho, Matlou Phineas; Magano, Solomon Ramagoai; Mogale, A.M.; Boaduo, Nana Kwaku Kyei; Eloff, Jacobus Nicolaas
(Elsevier, 2010-08)
Recent decades have experienced a sharp increase in the incidence and prevalence of diabetes mellitus. One antidiabetic therapeutic approach
is to reduce gastrointestinal glucose production and absorption through the ...
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Riato, Luisa; Van Ginkel, Carin; Taylor, Jonathan C.
(Zoological Society of Southern Africa, 2014-04)
This paper provides a description of the zooplankton and epiphytic diatom communities of permanent and temporary freshwater pans in the Mpumalanga Highveld region of South Africa. Few studies have investigated the biota ...