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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (University of Pretoria) by Supervisor "Venter, Estelle Hildegard"
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-12-17)Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a disease of significant economic importance in Africa. It causes considerable production losses and its presence in semen is a constraint to international trade. Recent findings that LSDV viral ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Canine distemper virus (CDV) has emerged as a significant disease of wildlife, is highly contagious and readily transmitted between susceptible hosts. Initially described as an infectious disease of domestic dogs, it is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)This research was initiated by an outbreak of fowl adenovirus (FAdV) associated inclusion body hepatitis (IBH) in South Africa (SA) during 2008. The fowl adenoviruses involved in this outbreak could be identified by ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010)Canine parvovirus type 2 (CPV-2), the aetiological agent of haemorrhagic enteritis in dogs emerged in 1978 worldwide. In the mid 1980’s, the original CPV-2 had evolved and was completely replaced by 2 variants, CPV 2a and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)Mycoplasma synoviae (Ms) causes respiratory infection and synovitis in chickens and turkeys and is an economically important pathogen of poultry worldwide. It is critically important to characterize Ms strains, especially ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-03-09)The economy of West African countries is dependent mainly on agriculture. Livestock production is a vital source of providing dietary protein for the rapidly growing human population and it is therefore important to define ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The Palyam serogroup of the genus Orbivirus and family Reoviridae are arthropodborne viruses that have been isolated in Africa, Australia and Asia. They are associated with abortion and teratogenesis in cattle and other ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Bluetongue (BT) is a non-contagious viral disease of domestic and wild ruminants. Bluetongue virus (BTV), an Orbivirus that belongs to the family Reoviridae, is the causing agent of the disease. The virus consists of a ten ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a disease of ruminants in Africa, Madagascar and the Middle East, affecting primarily domestic, but also many wild species. The disease can be peracute to acute and is characterised by a necrotic ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a mosquito-borne virus and a member of the family Phenuiviridae and genus Phlebovirus. The single stranded RNA genome consists of three segments, Large (L), Medium (M) and Small (S). Rift ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is an economically important and debilitating disease of cattle caused by the lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV), a poxvirus in the genus Capripoxvirus. The disease is of economic importance to farmers ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-03-30)The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of vaccination in preventing LSDV excretion in semen and negative effects on semen quality. Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is caused by a virus in the genus Capripoxvirus of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Background: Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a mosquito-borne viral zoonosis currently confined to the African continent and the Arabian Peninsula. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of antibodies to RVF virus (RVFV) ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-10-09)Lumpy skin disease (LSD) and Rift Valley fever (RVF) are transboundary viral diseases occurring in Africa and the Middle East (e.g. Israel, Saudi Arabia and Yemen) with increasing potential for global spread. Although the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-09-14)The main objective of this study was to use the Attraction-aggregation-attachment¬pheromone/carbon dioxide (AAAP/C02) trap on a sustainable basis at six different field sites in South Africa. This trap was developed in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-11-21)Mycobaterium bovis is the causative agent of bovine tuberculosis (BTB) and it is a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC). This bacterium has a wide host range of which, cattle is considered as the maintenance ...
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