Henri Pieter Albert de Boom was born on 16 October 1914 in Pretoria. He completed his schooling at the Oosteindschool in 1931 and qualified as veterinarian from the Onderstepoort faculty in 1936. The rest of his career ...

Prof. Henning worked at the OVI and was also Professor of Veterinary Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Pretoria. In 1938 he was awarded the DVSc degree by the University of South Africa for his thesis "The ...

Prof. R.K. Reinecke was head of the Section of Helmintology at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute. He was a well known helminthologist.

P.J. du Toit succeeded Theiler in 1927 as director of the Veterinary Research Institute, Onderstepoort. W.O. Neitz was the head of the Pathology section at that stage.

Robert Koch, born in Germany, is regarded as one of the fathers of bacteriology. He was younger than Louis Pasteur by 21 years. He was the first to describe the causative agent of tuberculosis in 1882 and he developed ...

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 ...

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 ...

For many years the South African Veterinary Medical Association (now the South African Veterinary Association) held its annual congress in the Library hall of the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute.

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 ...

Tsetse-flies are bloodsucking flies which transmit trypanosomes biologically from animal to animal.