Browsing South African National Veterinary Repository by Subject "Nagana"

Browsing South African National Veterinary Repository by Subject "Nagana"

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  • Unknown; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science (2008-03-13)
    There are no clinical signs specific for trypanosomosis. The disease may be acute, sub-acute or chronic. Acute disease may be fatal after an illness lasting 2-6 weeks, or it may developed into the chronic phrase which may ...
  • Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa) (2009-03-02)
    Female tsetse flies deposit larvae in soft ground in shady places. The larvae moult to form pupae from which adult flies eventually emerge. The flies (male and female) then seek a blood meal. The mean life span of a male ...
  • Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa) (2008-03-13)
    There are no clinical signs specific for trypanosomosis. The disease may be acute, sub-acute or chronic. Acute disease may be fatal after an illness lasting 2-6 weeks, or it may developed into the chronic phrase which may ...
  • Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa) (2008-03-28)
    Several methods have been or are used to control trypanosomosis. Some of these are: 1. Control of the vectors (i.e. tsetse flies [Glossina spp]) -- 1.1. Remove their source of food (i.e. blood of animals) by reducing the ...
  • Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa) (2009-03-02)
    Several methods have been or are used to control trypanosomosis. One of the methods is bush clearing to reduce the fly's habitats and breeding sites.
  • Penzhorn, Barend Louis; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science (2008-02-27)
    Trypanosoma brucei is a parasitic protist species and one of the important species which cause nagana or African animal trypanosomosis in human and animals in Africa. There are 3 sub-species of Trypanosoma brucei: T.b.brucei, ...
  • ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research (1931)
    David Bruce (1855-1931), Scottish bacteriologist and parasitologist, was the only son of David Bruce and his wife Jane Hamilton. In 1884 he was posted to Malta as an army surgeon and two years later discovered the bacterial ...
  • Van den Bossche, Peter; Mudenge, D.; Mubanga, J.; Norval, A.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand (Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1999)
    Between August 1995 and June 1997 a survey to determine the distribution of tsetse-transmitted trypanosomosis was conducted in the Eastern Caprivi (Caprivi District, Namibia). A total of 1 481 adult cattle was examined at ...
  • Bedford, G.A.H.; Theiler, Arnold, Sir, 1867-1936; Union of South Africa. Department of Agriculture (Pretoria : Government Printer and Stationery Office, 1926)
  • Kappmeier, Karin; Nevill, E.M.; Bagnall, R.J.; Verwoerd, Daniel Wynand (Published by the Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, 1998)
    The history of tsetse flies and nagana (trypanosomosis) in South Africa, and especially in Zululand, is reviewed. Four valid tsetse fly species have been recorded from South Africa. Glossina morsitans morsitans disappeared ...
  • Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa) (2008-02-27)
    In Africa, protozoon parasites of the genus Trypanosoma are responsible for causing what is probably still the most important disease of domestic livestock in Africa south of the Sahara Desert i.e. African animal trypanosomosis ...
  • Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa) (2008-02-04)
    Sir David Bruce came to Natal in 1894. He was the first to established in 1895 that the cause of a fatal disease of livestock, known as nagana, was due to a trypanosome transmitted by tsetse flies (Glossina spp.). The ...
  • Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa) (2008-03-13)
    Chronic trypanosomosis caused by Trypanosoma virax. The chronic form - the most common - is characterized by emaciation, weakness, lethargy, anaemia, enlarged lymph nodes and subcutaneous (dependent) oedema.
  • Unknown; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science (2008-03-28)
    There are no clinical signs specific for trypanosomosis. The disease may be acute, sub-acute or chronic. Acute disease may be fatal after an illness lasting 2-6 weeks, or it may developed into the chronic phrase which may ...
  • Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa) (2008-03-27)
    There are no clinical signs specific for trypanosomosis. The disease may be acute, sub-acute or chronic. Acute disease may be fatal after an illness lasting 2-6 weeks, or it may developed into the chronic phrase which may ...
  • Robinson, J.; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa) (2008-04-17)
    Glossina morsitans, a species originally thought to be the sole transmitter of Trypanosoma brucei brucei, the cause of nagana in central Africa; this species transmits this disease in some regions, but it is not the sole ...
  • Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa) (2008-04-16)
    Tsetse-flies are bloodsucking flies which transmit trypanosomes biologically from animal to animal.
  • Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa) (2009-03-02)
    "Bait" cattle can be used to deterimine the incidence of tsetse flies in an area. Flies landing on cattle to feed are captured.