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Browsing Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute by Author "Unknown"
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Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa)
(2008-10-03)
The Pathology building was erected in 1923. On the left is part of the "clinical block" (also called the "animal hospital")
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Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa)
(2008-11-14)
Allerton laboratory was and still is, a regional diagnostic laboratory. It is situated in the Pietermaritzburg district, Kwazulu-Natal.
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Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa)
(2008-02-22)
In 1911 the farm Armoedsvlakte ("Poverty flats") - so named because no cattle could be farmed there as a result of the disease lamsiekte (botulism) - was offered to Arnold Theiler for a year to conduct experiments. The ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa)
(2008-01-23)
Dr Gertrud Theiler was a world renowned parasitologist and published a massive series on ticks in Africa and their effects on animals.
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Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa)
(2008-03-03)
J. Georg van der Wath qualified (BVSc) at the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Pretoria at Onderstepoort in 1934 and took up an appointment at the Allerton Veterinary Laboratory near Pietermaritzburg. In 1936 he ...
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Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa)
(2008-02-11)
On 15 October 1928 he was appointed Research Officer at Onderstepoort and later Professor of Medicine at the Veterinary Faculty at the Institute. He will best be remembered for his transmission work on dourine in equines. ...
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Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa)
(2008-02-04)
Dr. Duncan Hutcheon, MRCVS, qualified at the Royal Veterinary College (Royal Dick) in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1869. He came to the Cape Colony in 1880 to join the Colonial Service. An exceptional veterinarian in all respects ...
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Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa)
(2008-02-11)
Gilles van der Wall de Kock was one of the first two students to be sent abroad (to the Royal College in London) by the South African Government (in 1909) to be trained as a veterinarian. When the Faculty of Veterinary ...
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Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa)
(2008-02-22)
Dr Steyn obtained his BVSc degree in 1932 and was appointed GVO North Waterberg at the beginning of 1933. During 1934, after the Foot and Mouth campaign, he was transferred to Kimberley as GVO of the Northern Cape and ...
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Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa)
(2008-02-04)
Dr. Louis Pasteur, born in France, was one of the "fathers" of Bacteriology in the latter 1800's
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Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa)
(2008-02-11)
Dr. P.J. du Toit succeeded Sir Arnold Theiler as director of the OVI in 1927, a post he held until 1948. His main area of expertise was protozoology. He had also become Professor of Tropical Diseases at the Veterinary ...
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Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa)
(2009-05-26)
Epi- and endocardial haemorrhages are commonly present in the disease.
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Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa)
(2008-11-14)
Ferrets were bred particularly when experimental work was being done in the 1950's for the development of a canine distemper vaccine as they are also susceptable to the virus (a member of the family Paramyxoviridae)
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Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa)
(2008-01-23)
Getrud Theiler, younger daugther of Sir Arnold Theiler with her elder sister, Margaret and Thelma Gutsche. Thelma Gutsche was the author of the book "There was a man" which was on the life of Sir Arnold Theiler.
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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 ...
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Unknown; Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa)
(2009-03-02)
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 ...