Enterobacter sichuanensis AJI 2411 is a rhizobacteria displaying plant growth promoting potentials, which was
isolated from the rhizosphere of soybeans in Ede, Osun State, Nigeria. The full genome of Enterobacter ...
INTRODUCTION : Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Gallinarum biovar Gallinarum (SG) is associated with fowl typhoid fever, and the attenuated rough strain SG9R is widely used as a vaccine in many regions. ...
Q fever in animals and humans and its economic and public health significance
has been widely reported worldwide but in South Africa. There are few studies
on the prevalence of this zoonosis and its associated risk factors ...
Sebola, Dikeledi; Oguttu, James W.; Kock, Marleen M.; Qekwana, Daniel Nenene(Frontiers Media, 2023-01-09)
BACKGROUND : Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are associated with increased
mortality, morbidity, and an economic burden due to costs associated with
extended hospital stays. Furthermore, most pathogens associated ...
INTRODUCTION : Physical and non-physical processes that occur in nature may
influence biological processes, such as dissemination of infectious diseases.
However, such processes may be hard to detect when they are complex ...
CONTEXT : The conservation of the Endangered African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) poses a major challenge to conservationists because outside the boundaries of protected areas, wild dogs are prone to conflict with farmers. ...
Cantoni, Diego; Mayora-Neto, Martin; Derveni, Mariliza; Da Costa, Kelly; Del Rosario, Joanne; Ameh, Veronica Odinya; Sabeta, Claude; Auld, Bethany; Hamlet, Arran; Jones, Ian M.; Wright, Edward; Scott, Simon D.; Giotis, Efstathios S.; Banyard, Ashley C.; Temperton, Nigel(Frontiers Media, 2023-11-27)
INTRODUCTION : The Eidolon helvum fruit bat is one of the most widely distributed
fruit bats in Africa and known to be a reservoir for several pathogenic viruses that
can cause disease in animals and humans. To assess ...
Phytopathogenic fungi and nematodes cause great losses in economically important crops and food production especially in developing countries. To minimize the use of fungicides and nematicides, researchers have concentrated ...
Rodarte, Katie A.; Fair, Jeanne M.; Bett, Bernard K.; Kerfua, Susan D.; Fasina, Folorunso Oludayo; Bartlow, Andrew W.(Frontiers Media, 2023-07-17)
Abattoirs are facilities where livestock are slaughtered and are an important
aspect in the food production chain. There are several types of abattoirs, which
differ in infrastructure and facilities, sanitation and PPE ...
The native Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa) is a relevant wildlife host for African swine fever (ASF) virus, contributing to infection maintenance and spread and representing a challenge for disease control. Combining ...
Newcastle disease (ND) is a highly contagious viral respiratory and neurological
disease that has a severe impact on poultry production worldwide. In the present
study, an expression platform was established for the ...
BACKGROUND : Sarcocephalus pobeguinii (Hua ex Pobég) is used in folk medicine to
treat oxidative-stress related diseases, thereby warranting the investigation of its
anticancer and anti-inflammatory properties. In our ...
Through a collaborative effort across six Sub-Saharan African countries, using recognized international assessment techniques, 23 stocks of three tick species (Rhipicephalus microplus, Rhipicephalus appendiculatus and ...
Trichinella infections have been documented globally and have been detected in
wild and/or domestic animals except Antarctica. There is paucity of information in
the metabolic responses of hosts during Trichinella ...
INTRODUCTION : Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) bacteria are the most
prominent etiological agents of lymphadenitis in pigs. M. avium subspecies
hominissuis (MAH) is a member of MAC and has been reported in many parts
of ...
Mazloum, Ali; Van Schalkwyk, Antoinette; Babiuk, Shawn; Venter, Estelle Hildegard; Wallace, David Brian; Sprygin, Alexander(Frontiers Media, 2023-11-02)
Lumpy skin disease is recognized as a transboundary and emerging disease of
cattle, buffaloes and other wild ruminants. Being initially restricted to Africa, and
since 1989 the Middle East, the unprecedented recent spread ...
Ochai, Sunday Ochonu; Crafford, Jan Ernst; Kamath, Pauline L.; Turner, Wendy C.; Van Heerden, Henriette(Frontiers Media, 2023-07-11)
Disease monitoring in free-ranging wildlife is a challenge and often relies on
passive surveillance. Alternatively, proactive surveillance that relies on the
detection of specific antibodies could give more reliable and ...
Viljoen, Devon; Webb, E.C. (Edward Cottington); Myburgh, Jan G.; Truter, Johannes Christoff; Myburgh, Albert(Frontiers Media, 2023-09-18)
Population surveys of crocodilians using uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV) or
drones may become accurate and cost-effective alternatives to more
traditional approaches. However, there are currently no quantitative methods
for ...
Kimble, J. Brian; Noronha, Leela; Trujillo, Jessie D.; Mitzel, Dana; Richt, Juergen A.; Wilson, William C.(Elsevier, 2024-07)
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a viral disease of domestic ruminants and wild hooved animals of Africa and the Middle East but can also infect humans. RVF virus is spread by several species of mosquitoes and causes intermittent ...
Temperate living primates cope with a variety of environmental stressors, which may vary by body mass. We studied two sympatric galagos, the thick-tailed greater galago, Otolemur crassicaudatus (1.5 kg) and the southern ...