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Browsing Natural and Agricultural Sciences by Supervisor "Weyer, Jacqueline"
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)The severe acute respiratory disease syndrome or SARS epidemic emerged in Hong Kong, China, in 2002 with a mortality rate of 15%. The etiological agent for SARS was identified to be a previously unrecognized coronavirus ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-09)In past years, the potential of bats as reservoir for paramyxoviruses was clearly underestimated. Research of the 21st century now provides evidence that bats play an important role as reservoir and host to these viruses. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)In Africa, bats have been implicated in a number of emerging and re-emerging diseases, mostly associated with viral infections – such as caused by rabies-related lyssaviruses, paramyxoviruses and coronaviruses. Whereas ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-10-08)The etiological agent of rabies encephalitis belongs to the genus Lyssavirus in the Rhabdoviridae family. Lyssaviruses are negative sense, single stranded RNA viruses and cause an estimated 55 000 human deaths per year ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-06-28)The genus Alphavirus in the family Togaviridae consists of approximately 30 single stranded, positive-sense RNA viruses which cause diseases ranging from mild, febrile illness with rash and arthritis to life-threatening ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-09-23)Rabies is a neurological disease caused by viruses of the genus Lyssavirus belonging to the family Rhabdoviridae and order Mononegavirales. The Lyssavirus genus consists of eleven species namely rabies virus; Lagos bat ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-05-26)Human rabies is a zoonotic viral disease that affects thousands of people worldwide, especially in the developing countries of Africa and Asia. There are two distinct biotypes of lyssavirus genotype 1 circulating in South ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-10-22)Rift Valley fever (RVF) belongs to the group of viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHFs), most of which are zoonotic diseases causing outbreaks in animals and humans all over Africa. In the absence of haemorrhagic or specific organ ...
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