African horse sickness (AHS) is a life threatening disease of equids caused by African horse sickness virus (AHSV), a member of the genus Orbivirus in the family Reoviridae. The virus is transmitted to horses by midges ...

Light microscopic manual count is the current gold standard for parasite quantification. The ability to determine parasite density in whole blood is crucial to understanding disease pathogenesis and finding a suitable ...

Brucellosis is an economically important bacterial disease of both animals and humans. In sub-Saharan Africa, the diagnosis of the disease remains a challenge. Brucellosis is underreported in South Africa, due to inconsistency ...

Newcastle disease (ND), caused by avian avulavirus 1 (AA1), an enveloped, negative sense, single stranded RNA virus belonging to the Paramyxoviridae family. ND is found world-wide and leads to severe economic losses from ...

has been significant progress in the development of new technologies and methodologies to characterize gene expression. The fluorescent-based real-time reverse transcription (RT) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is an ...

The thermostability of vaccines is of crucial importance in Africa, where the logistical process to get the vaccine from the manufacturer to the animal may take months, and in many remote regions transport and storage ...

Rationale: Viral diseases are important in the African context as they cause significant clinical disease in both wild and domestic animals, as well as in humans. Viral diseases make up a large proportion of emerging ...