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(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.
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(2008-08-07)Clinical signs of heartwater in cattle is a fever of 40°C or higher which persits for 3-4 days before it falls to below normal shortly before death. Animals cease eating and a diarrhoea may or may not be present. Some ...
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(2008-05-16)The "clinical block" (or animal hospital) housed primarily large and small animals that were patients of the surgery department. Notice the lungering ring (circular "path") in the centre of the lawn.
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(2008-05-16)On the photo in the right foreground are the animal stables, in centre distance, is the "clinical block" (animal hospital) and on the right, part of the Pathology building.
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(2008-05-16)Considerable expansion of the infrastructure at Onderstepoort, mainly to accommodate new students, took place in the early 1920s. The Biochemistry wing of the main building, the Pathology building, the hospital block and ...
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(2008-03-03)The double-storied main building in Dutch Colonial style housed a number of laboratories, each fitted out for a specific line of research such as bacteriology, zoology, chemistry, pathology etc. Hot and cold water, gas, ...
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(2008-01-23)Prof Neitz was a world-renowned protozoologist who studied the pathogenic protozoa causing diseases of domestic and wild animals in Southern Africa. He was appointed at Onderstepoort in the section of protozoology and ...
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(2008-02-15)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 ...
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(2008-02-11)J.W. Groenewald was Professor of Animal Nutrition in the 1950's. He authored a book "Animal Nutrition" which was used by veterinary students and others.
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(2008-02-11)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 ...
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(2008-03-03)P.J.J. Fourie obtained his MRCVS in Dublin in 1919 as one of a group of students selected by the South African government for training in veterinary science abroad, before training facilities were established in South ...
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(2008-02-04)Prof. R.K. Reinecke was head of the Section of Helmintology at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute. He was a well known helminthologist.
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(2008-02-11)Prof. du Toit was head of the Entomology section. He will best be remembered for determining that bluetongue disease of sheep and horse sickness are transmitted by the midges of the Culicoides genus. Both diseases are ...
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(2008-02-04)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.
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(2008-11-14)Small animals such as rabbits, ferrets, rats and mice were bred for experimental work in the 1940's. In modern times they are very seldom used as other methods have been developed.
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(2008-02-04)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 ...
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(2008-02-04)Samuel Wiltshire was Chief Colonial Veterinarian in the Natal Colony during Theiler's time.
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(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 ...
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(2008-01-22)Sir Arnold Theiler, the founder of the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, in front of the main building.
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(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 ...
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