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Browsing 1990 Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, Volume 57, 1990 by Title
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Du Plessis, J.L.; Meyer, E.H.H.; Van Gas, L.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
An attempt to establish an inbred line of mice resistant to Cowdria ruminantium failed. First generation couples were constituted from those mice out of 100 males and 100 females that had survived infection with the Kümm ...
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Du Plessis, J.L.; Potgieter, F.T.; Van Gas, L.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
Neither sheep immune to the Ball 3, the Kwanyanga or the Mara stocks of Cowdria ruminantium nor those immunized with combinations of these 3 stocks were protected against challenge with the Mali stock. Against challenge ...
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Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Pretoria : Government Printer, 1990)
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Van Der Walt, J.J.; Van Rooyen, J.M.; Lotter, A.P.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
ST-segment changes in the ECG, which are an indication of acute myocardial ischaemia, are obtained when a small quantity of an extract from dried Pachystigma pygmaeum is injected intravenously in sheep. When the fraction ...
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Du Plessis, J.L.; Fourie, Niel; Nel, P.W.; Evezard, D.N.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
Giemsa-stained, peripheral blood smears of 67 dogs, showing clinical signs typical of babesiosis or reminiscent of concurrent babesiosis and ehrlichiosis, were examined for the presence of Babesia canis and Ehrlichia canis. ...
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Van Wyk, Jan Aucamp; Gerber, H.M.; Alves, Regina M.R.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
Infective larvae of selected batched of the following nematode species from sheep and cattle were examined for survival and infectivity (by injection into either the abomasum, the duodenum, or the jugular vein) after having ...
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Neitz, Albert Walter Herman; Viljoen, G.J.; Van Wyngaardt, S.; Gothe, R.; Visser, L.; Bezuidenhout, J. Dürr; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
One-day-old leghorn chickens were used in a laboratory assay to determine the toxicity of crude extracts of the tick Argas (Persicargas) walkerae and of fractions obtained during the isolation procedure. Extracts of unfed ...
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Krecek, R.C.; Murrell, K.D.; Douglass, L.W.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
Assessments were made of the influence of several microclimatic variables on the availability of third-stage larvae of Ostertagia ostertagi, on pasture herbage. Variables most closely related to recovery of larvae from the ...
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Ribeiro, L.M.M.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
Trials were conducted to compare a modification of a commercial medium with the 2 media currently used at the Veterinary Research Institute, Onderstepoort, for the isolation of Trichomonas foetus. An antifungal agent was ...
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Barnard, B.J.H.; Bengis, Roy G.; Voges, S.F.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
Under experimental conditions an African face fly (Musca xanthomelas) preferred to feed on cattle dung when provided with a choice of 3 different meals namely sucrose, cattle dung and blood. Flies starved overnight fed ...
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Barnard, B.J.H.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
The investigation involved 52 cases of wildebeest-derived malignant catarrhal fever in 1986 and 1989 in a herd of cattle kept in camps adjacent to a game farm harbouring a herd of approximately 330 blue wildebeest (Connochaetes ...
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Groeneveld, Hendrik T.; Van Wyk, Jan Aucamp; Carmichael, I.H.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
Parafilariosis was first described in South Africa in 1964, thereafter being discovered at numerous localities in the country. When it became obvious that Parafilaria bovicola, for which no treatment was known, caused ...
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Wolmarans, C.T.; De Kock, K.N.; Van der Walt, M.P.K.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
Certain aspects of the immune response of a male experimentally infected with 3-day old cercariae of a pure field strain of Schistosoma mattheei were investigated. Among others, aspects such as the reaction of eosinophils, ...
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Hunter, Pamela; Van der Lugt, Jaco J.; Gouws, J.J.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
The immunity conferred by an A. pyogenes bacterin-toxoid was evaluated in sheep, using an intravenous challenge system. Three sheep were vaccinated and 3 served as controls. The vaccinated sheep were not protected against ...
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Braack, L.E.O.; De Vos, Valerius; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
Carrion-frequenting blow-flies (Chrysomyia albiceps and C. marginalis) were allowed 4 days of feeding on ³²P-orthophosphate-labelled blood or an Impala carcass (Aepyceros melampus) in the northern Kruger National Park, ...
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Van Wyk, Jan Aucamp; Bath, Gareth F.; Gerber, H.M.; Alves, Regina M.R.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
A strain of Trichostrongylus colubriformis from Nottingham Road, in Natal, was found to be solidly resistant to levamisole and morantel at the recommended dose levels. Untreated control sheep in fact harboured fewer worms ...
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Spickett, Arthur M.; Van Ark, H.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
Samples of 6, 1st generation larval populations of Boophilus decoloratus, originating from field collected females, were subjected to increasing doses of the organophosphate acaricide, Dioxathion. The dose-response ...
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Du Plessis, J.L.; Van Gas, L.; Labuschagne, F.J.; Wijma, S.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
Lyophilized tissues of mice and blood of sheep, infected with either the Kumm, the Welgevonden or the Ball 3 stock of Cowdria ruminantium, remain infective to mice and sheep after storage at 4ºC for
90 days. Freeze-dried ...
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Du Preez, J.H.; Giesecke, W.H.; Hattingh, P.J.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
The Livestock Weather Safety Index (LWSI) indicates that in large areas of South Africa and South West Africa / Namibia and for prolonged periods of the year warm conditions are causing heat stress in food producing animals, ...
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Du Preez, J.H.; Hattingh, P.J.; Giesecke, W.H.; Eisenberg, B.E.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand
(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1990)
Temperature-humidity index (THI) values applicable to South Africa and Namibia have been established during this investigation for each month of the year by means of computerized modelling and mapping techniques.
The data ...