Distribution and molecular characterization of South African Bacillus Anthracis strains and their associated bacteriophages

dc.contributor.advisorVan Heerden, Henriette
dc.contributor.coadvisorBeyer, Wolfgang
dc.contributor.emailayesha.hassim@gmail.com
dc.contributor.postgraduateHassim, Ayesha
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Africa
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-28T08:41:35Z
dc.date.available2017-04-28T08:41:35Z
dc.date.created2017
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionThesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2016.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractChapter 1: Introduction and Literature Review; Chapter 2: A retrospective study of anthrax on the Ghaap plateau, Northern Cape Province of South Africa, with special reference to the 2007 - 2008 outbreaks; Chapter 3: Insights gained from sample diagnostics during anthrax outbreaks in the Kruger National Park, South Africa; Chapter 4: Through the lens: a microscopic and molecular evaluation of archival blood smears from the 2010 anthrax outbreaks in Kruger National Park, South Africa; Chapter 5: A distribution snapshot of anthrax in South Africa: multiple locus variable number of tandem repeats analyses of Bacillus anthracis isolates from epizootics spanning 4 decades across southern Africa; Chapter 6: Isolation and Whole Genome Analysis of a Lytic Bacteriophage Infected Bacillus anthracis Isolate from Pafuri, South Africa; Chapter 7: Characterisation of temperate bacteriophages infecting Bacillus cereus sensu stricto group in the anthrax endemic regions of South Africa; Chapter 8: General discussion, conclusions and recommendations.en_ZA
dc.description.availabilityUnrestricteden_ZA
dc.description.degreePhDen_ZA
dc.description.departmentVeterinary Tropical Diseasesen_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipGerman Research Foundation (DFG)en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa.en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHassim, A 2016, Distribution and molecular characterization of South African Bacillus Anthracis strains and their associated bacteriophages, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60125>en_ZA
dc.identifier.otherA2017
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/60125
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoria
dc.rights© 2016 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.en_ZA
dc.subjectUCTDen_ZA
dc.subjectBacillus anthracisen_ZA
dc.subjectBacteriophagesen_ZA
dc.subjectAnthrax
dc.subjectDisease ecology
dc.subjectZoonosis
dc.titleDistribution and molecular characterization of South African Bacillus Anthracis strains and their associated bacteriophagesen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA

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