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Browsing Research Articles (Equine Research Centre) by Subject "African horse sickness virus"
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Weyer, Camilla Theresa; Quan, Melvyn; Joone, Christopher; Lourens, Carina W.; MacLachlan, N.J. (James); Guthrie, Alan John
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-01)
To determine whether subclinical cases, together with clinical cases, of African horse sickness (AHS) occur in immunised horses in field conditions, whole
blood samples were collected and rectal temperatures recorded ...
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Rathogwa, Ntungufhadzeni Maclaughlin; Quan, Melvyn; Smit, J.Q.; Lourens C.; Guthrie, Alan John; Van Vuuren, Moritz
(Elsevier, 2014-01)
Equine encephalosis virus (EEV) is the cause of equine encephalosis. The disease is similar to mild forms
of African horse sickness (AHS) and the two diseases are easily confused. Laboratory identification and
serotyping ...
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Guthrie, Alan John; MacLachlan, N.J. (James); Joone, Christopher; Lourens, Carina W.; Weyer, Camilla Theresa; Quan, Melvyn; Monyai, Mpho S.; Gardner, Ian A.
(Elsevier, 2013)
Blood samples collected from 503 suspect cases of African horse sickness (AHS) and another 503 from
uninfected, unvaccinated South African horses, as well as 98 samples from horses from an AHS free country,
were tested ...
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Guthrie, Alan John; Quan, Melvyn; Lourens, Carina W.; Audonnet, Jean-Christophe; Minke, Jules M.; Yao, Jiansheng; He, Ling; Nordgren, Robert; Gardner, Ian A.; MacLachlan, N.J. (James)
(Elsevier, 2009-07)
We describe the development and preliminary characterization of a recombinant canarypox virus vectored (ALVAC®) vaccine for protective immunization of equids against African horse sickness virus (AHSV) infection. Horses ...
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Crafford, Jan Ernst; Lourens, Carina W.; Smit, T.K.; Gardner, Ian A.; MacLachlan, N.J. (James); Guthrie, Alan John
(Elsevier, 2014-06)
African horse sickness (AHS) is typically a highly fatal disease in susceptible horses and vaccinationis currently used to prevent the occurrence of disease in endemic areas. Similarly, vaccination has beencentral to the ...
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Scheffer, Elizabeth G.; Venter, Gert Johannes; Joone, Christopher; Osterrieder, Nikolaus; Guthrie, Alan John
(Agricultural Research Council, ARC-OVI and the University of Pretoria, 2011-11-11)
Despite its important role as vector for African horse sickness virus (AHSV), very little information is available on the dissemination of this virus in Culicoides (Avaritia) imicola Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). ...