Browsing South African National Veterinary Repository by Title

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  • D.D.T. for the protection of sheep against blowfly strike 
    Du Toit, R.; Goosen, P.J.; De Kock, G.v.d.W. (Pretoria : The Government Printer, 1949)
    Sheep treated at Onderstepoort with emulsions containing 5 per cent. and 2•5 per cent. para para isomer of D.D.T. on selected sites on the fleece, and subsequently tested on these treated sites by artificially induced ...
  • Danger of introducing heartwater onto the American mainland : potential role of indigenous and exotic Amblyomma ticks 
    Heartwater : Past, Present and Future. Workshop (1986 : Kruger National Park, South Africa); Barre, N.; Uilenberg, Gerrit; Morel, P.C.; Camus, E.; Bigalke, R.D. (Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1987)
    The existence of heartwater on 3 islands of the Central Lesser Antilles and the presence of an efficient vector originating from Africa, Amblyomma variegatum, on most of the islands of this region constitute a serious ...
  • Daspoort Laboratory 
    Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa) (2008-03-03)
    The ARC-OVI owes its origin to the rinderpest outbreak that swept through South Africa in 1896. Its forerunner was a laboratory established at Daspoort by Arnold Theiler in 1897.
  • Daspoort Laboratory 1 
    ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research (1940)
    Photo taken high up from Daspoort koppie of the Bacteriological laboratory, the Rinderpest station, Theiler house, an abandonded cattle kraal and surrounding area.
  • Daspoort Laboratory 2 
    ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research (1940)
    Close-up photo of the laboratory, stables, kitchen area and spruit, showing the unhygienic conditions
  • Daspoort Laboratory 3 
    ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research (1940)
    The area west of the Daspoort Bacteriological Laboratory showing houses and possibly the lazaretto where Turner's interest in leprosy started
  • Daspoort Laboratory 4 
    ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research (1940)
    Photo of the Daspoort Bacteriological laboratory, rinderpest station and Theiler house
  • Daspoort Laboratory 5 
    ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research (1940)
    Photo of the Daspoort Bacteriological laboratory, Rinderpest station and Theiler house
  • Daspoort Laboratory 6 
    ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research (1940)
    Photo of the Daspoort bacteriological laboratory, Rinderpest station and Theiler house
  • Daspoort Laboratory : bacteriological laboratory and Rindepest station. 
    ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research (1940)
    In 1898 Arnold Theiler received funds to establish a laboratory on the outskirts of Pretoria, converting the existing unused Daspoort disinfection station for hides and skins into a vaccine factory. Apart from the rinderpest ...
  • Daspoort staff 
    ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research (1905)
    Photograph of the Daspoort staff, 1905. Photographer unknown.
  • Daspoort staff (early 1906) 
    ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research (1906)
    Daspoort personnel, early 1906. D.B. Teak (Farrier, 1905), R. Jack White (Lay Assistant, 1905) , Zeederberg (Clerical Staff) & W.V. Averse/ Avene / Lay Assistant 1906).
  • David Livingstone 
    Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa) (2008-02-04)
    Missionaries, such as David Livingstone, travelling in Africa, were among the first to encounter the many African diseases of livestock during their travels. Livingstone, in 1857, is wrongly credited with the first report ...
  • Deep dissections of the veins of the bovine head : unpublished work by Prof. J.M.W. Le Roux (1926-1991) 
    Smuts, M.M.S. (Malie Marie Sophie), 1933-; Bezuidenhout, A.J. (Abraham Johannes), 1942-; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand; Seegers, Christine D. (Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute., 1992)
  • Defluorination of aqueous solutions of superphosphate for use in animal nutrition 
    Truter, G.J.; Louw, J.G.; Alexander, R.A.; Clark, R.; Louw, J.G.; De Kock, V.E. (Published by The Government Printer, Pretoria, 1952)
    A method of preparing low-fluorine water solutions of superphosphate as a source of phosphate for farm animals is described. It consists of the preparation of a concentrated solution, sedimentation of the insoluble ...
  • The delivery of oral rabies vaccines to dogs : an African perspective 
    Perry, B.D. (Brian D.), 1946-; Wandeler, A.I. (Alexander I.); Rabies in Southern and Eastern Africa. Workshop. (1993, Pretoria, South Africa); Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand (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 ...
  • Demarcation of potentially mineral-deficient areas in Central and Northern Namibia by means of natural classification systems 
    Grant, C.C. (Catharina Cornelia); Biggs, H.C.; Meissner, H.H.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand (Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1996)
    Mineral deficiencies that lead to production losses often occur concurrently with climatic and management changes. To diagnose these deficiencies in time to prevent production losses, long-term monitoring of mineral ...
  • The demonstration and transmission of the South African strain of Trypanosoma equiperdum of horses 
    Parkin, B.S.; Du Toit, P.J. (Pretoria : The Government Printer, 1948)
    The identification and the transmission of the causal trypanosomes of the South African type of Dourine has resulted in an improvement of the methods of diagnosis by means of the examination of the blood and of the Complement ...
  • Demonstration of Cowdria ruminantium in Amblyomma hebraeum by fluorescent antibody techniques, light and electron microscopy 
    Bezuidenhout, J.; Bezuidenhout, J. Durr; Bigalke, R.D. (Published by The Government Printer, Pretoria, 1984)
    Positive identification of Cowdria ruminantium in Amblyomma hebraeum was obtained by direct and indirect fluorescent antibody techniques, and by light and electron microscopy. Colonies of organisms could only be demonstrated ...
  • Demonstration of growth-inhibitory as well as growth-stimulatory factors in medium conditioned by lung lavage cells stimulated with a chemotactic factor secreted by jaagsiekte tumour cells 
    Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand; Myer, M.S.; Garnett, H.M.; Bigalke, R.D. (Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1987)
    Both growth-inhibitory and growth-stimulatory factors were detected in vitro in medium from chemotactically stimulated cultures of lung lavage cells. The macrophage component of the lavage cells was found to produce a ...