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Theses and Dissertations (Paraclinical Sciences): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-07)Soilborne pathogens are economically important, causing great losses in agricultural production globally. Nematodes, fungi, bacteria and viruses are microscopic, destructive pathogens which are extremely difficult to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-05)Among cattle diseases, bovine mastitis remains a serious problem with financial implications to the farmer as it adversely affects milk production. Staphylococcus aureus and non-aureus staphylococcus (NAS) species are often ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-04)The cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus, is classified as “vulnerable” on the IUCN red list of threatened species. With declining population numbers in the wild, conservation efforts have focused on captive breeding and investigating ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-04)Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest threats currently facing humanity. While there have been extensive studies on this subject in public health and livestock, there is paucity of information on the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-04)The population of the African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) (AP) has declined by more than 97% in the last century and continues to face a wide range of threats. The most prominent threat remains food shortages due to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)The primary objective of using animals for research is to collect reliable data that is reproducible and translatable to the intended species. Sometimes, it is difficult to obtain reliable data because the animals are ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Sclerosteosis is a severe autosomal recessive sclerosing skeletal dysplasia with no available treatment. It is characterised by excessive bone formation and is caused by mutations in the SOST gene that lead to loss of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Vermeersiekte or ‘vomiting disease’ is an economically important disease of ruminants following ingestion of Geigeria species in South Africa. Sheep are more susceptible and poisoning is characterised by stiffness, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)A proportion of Babesia rossi infections in dogs are classified as complicated. One of the most lethal complications is the acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory destress syndrome (ARDS). Patients affected by this ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Increased prevalence of antimicrobial resistance, treatment failure, and financial losses have been reported in dairy cattle with coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (CoNS) clinical mastitis. However, studies on CoNS are ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Ticks and tick borne diseases remain a huge threat to livestock productivity the world over. While several efforts have been made to control ticks, current control measures are still not adequate. Conventionally, tick ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Diclofenac toxicity in old world vultures is well described in the literature. As part of the toxicity of the drug, dead birds were generally found in the environment with signs of severe renal damage and gout. In birds ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)A previous study investigated and demonstrated that Hypoxis hemerocallidea (Fisch and Mey) (Hypoxidaceae) corm extracts used traditionally, stimulated insulin secretion from pancreatic _ cells maintained under ex vivo ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)The nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) diclofenac was responsible for the decimation of Gyps vulture species on the Indian subcontinent over the last two decades of the 20th century. For an unknown reason, Gyps ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This study evaluated eighteen commercial farms within Gauteng, Northwest and Limpopo provinces, where a representative sample of grow-out fish from each farm, was humanely euthanased, weighed, measured, and each fish’s ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Objective: To compare the physiological effects of high and low dose medetomidine in combination with zolazepam-tiletamine for the immobilisation and anaesthesia of the spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta). To identify a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Introduction: Campylobacter spp. is the most frequent cause of bacterial gastroenteritis in humans globally. Campylobacter spp. infections are characterized by acute watery or bloody diarrhoea, fever, weight loss and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The aim of this study was to investigate if a vaccine can be developed against epoxyscillirosidine, to prevent yellow tulp poisoning in livestock. Moraea pallida Bak. (yellow tulp) poisoning is the most important cardiac ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The spleen is the largest secondary lymphoid organ in the body and therefore not only does it perform many hematopoietic functions but it also mounts an immunological response to blood-borne antigens. Malaria and babesiosis, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Cardiac glycosides are often found within plants and can be classified as either cardenolides or bufadienolides depending on their structure. Cardenolide-containing plants are seldom eaten by livestock and of little ...
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