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(Pretoria : Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)Lycaon pictus is amongst the most endangered wildlife species in Africa. In 1990 rabies virus was isolated from the brain of an adult Lycaon found dead in the Serengeti region of Tanzania. One adult and six pups of the ...
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(Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)Current efforts to develop oral rabies vaccine baits for domestic dogs are reviewed and new materials (bait matrices, additives, vaccine containers, vaccine modification) for improving bait acceptance and vaccine delivery ...
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(Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)This paper provides a brief introduction into some aspects of bat-eared fox biology and social organization that is important to understanding rabies transmission and disease management in susceptible wildlife species ...
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(Pretoria : Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)The black-backed jackal is represented in rabies records from southern Africa and is suspected of playing an important role in the disease in this region. The basic biology of the species suggests that it does have certain ...
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(Pretoria : Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)Historical records suggest that in South Africa rabies was present in viverrids in the early 1800s. In the early 1950s a wave of canine rabies spread from Namibia through Botswana into the northern Transvaal and by 1961 ...
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(Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)In the Kruger National Park 75% of zebra foals are born in October-March and they lose their passive immunity against African horsesickness virus (AHSV) when they are 5-6 months old. One month later infection with different ...
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Cyclic fluctuations in acetone concentrations in the blood and milk of clinically healthy dairy cows (Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)Milk samples were taken daily or twice weekly, and blood samples twice weekly, from six clinically healthy dairy cows. Acetone concentration was determined by a new headspace gas-chromatographic method that proved to be ...
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(Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)Dog rabies control relies principally on the mass immunization of dogs in order to achieve population immunity levels sufficient to inhibit rabies transmission. In Africa, such high levels of population immunity are rarely ...
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(Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)Presented is a diagnosis of the male, female and nymph of Dermacentor rhinocerinus, and the first description of the larval stage. Adult Dermacentor rhinocerinus parasitize both the black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis, ...
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(Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)Two radiolabelled complementary DNA (eDNA) probes (1663 bp and 200 bp res pectively) were prepared from the genome segment that encodes the non-structural protein 1 (NS1) of bluetongue virus serotype 4 (BTV4). The probes ...
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(Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)With an apparent decline in rabies vaccination coverage in dog populations in many parts of eastern and southern Africa, consideration should be given to more effective targeting of rabies vaccination to protect those ...
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(Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)Characteristics of dog populations and their accessibility for rabies vaccination were compared in an urban and a semi-rural area in Zambia. A total of 1190 households were interviewed. In the urban study area (Mutendere, ...
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(Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)A random sample of households in Machakos District of Kenya was surveyed using personal interviews to determine features of dog ecology relevant to the spread of rabies. A mean of 1,35 dogs/household, a dog to person ratio ...
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(Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)A total of 380 scrub hares (Lepus saxatilis) from 5 localities, ranging from the north-eastern Transvaal to the eastern and the south-western Cape Province of South Africa, were examined for fleas and lice. Ctenocephalides ...
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(Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)Two WC 11 specific DNA fragments, 3 kb and 2 kb in size, respectively, were cloned and evaluated as probes for their use in diagnostic and epidemiological investigations of malignant catarrhal fever (MCF). Field specimens ...
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(Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)An annotated host-parasite list of the blood parasites of domestic poultry in sub-Saharan Africa is presented. This list contains the haematozoa found in domestic waterfowl (ducks, geese and muscovies) and phasianids ...
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(Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)Clinical ulcerative balanoposthitis and vulvovaginitis was experimentally reproduced in 14 sheep infected with a Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides LC field strain, isolated from the Straussheim Dorper stud. The study encompassed ...
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(Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)Homologous immune sheep serum inhibits the infectivity of mice for the Kumm stock of Cowdria ruminantium in an in vitro test. The presence of complement and an optimal ratio between the reagents are of cardinal importance. ...
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(Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)A total of 234 helmeted guineafowls, Numida meleagris coronata , were examined for lice at five localities in South Africa. These were the Mountain Zebra National Park in the eastern Karoo, Cape Province; the Andries ...
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(Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1993)
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