Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology
Nel, LH
MSc(UV) PhD(Pret) - Professor
NRF Rating: C1
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 3622
Fax number: 012 420 3266
E-mail address: louis.nel@up.ac.za
Research Interests:
Evolution of Rhabdoviruses and epidemiology of lyssaviruses
Lyssavirus vaccines
West Nile virus
Plant viruses
Pathogenesis and diagnosis of West Nile virus in South Africa
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Nel LH, Markotter W: 2007. Lyssaviruses. Critical Reviews in Microbiology, 33 (4), pp 301-324.
Cohen C, Sartorius B, Sabeta C, Zulu G, Paweska J, Mogoswane M, Sutton C, Nel LH, Swanepoel R, Leman PA, Grobbelaar AA, Dyason E, Blumberg L: 2007. Epidemiology and Molecular Virus Characterization of Reemerging Rabies, South Africa.. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 13 (12) / Dec, pp 1879-1886.
Sabeta C, Markotter W, Mohale DK, Shumba W, Wandeler AI, Nel LH: 2007. Mokola virus in domestic mammals, South Africa. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 13 (9) / Sep, pp 1371-1373.
Nel LH: 2007. Animal Viruses Pathogenic for Humans. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Sept, p. Online.
Wallace DB, Weyer J, Nel LH, Viljoen G J: 2007. Improved method for the generation and selection of homogeneous lumpy skin disease virus (SA-Neethling) recombinants. Journal of Virological Methods, 146, pp 52-60, Full Text
Weyer J, Rupprecht CE, Mans J, Viljoen G J, Nel LH: 2007. Generation and evaluaion of a recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara vaccine for rabies.. Vaccine, 25, pp 4213-4222, Full Text
Coetzee P, Nel LH: 2007. Emerging epidemic dog rabies in coastal South Africa: a molecular epidemiological analysis.. Virus Research, 126 (1-2), pp 186-195, Full Text
Sabeta CT, Mansfield KL, McElhinney LM, Fooks AR, Nel LH: 2007. Molecular epidemiology of rabies in bat-eared foxes (Otocyon megalotis) in South Africa. Virus Research, 129, pp 1-10.
Chapters in books:
Nel LH, Rupprecht C E: 2007. Emergence of Lyssaviruses in the Old World: The Case of Africa.. In Wildlife and Emerging Zoonotic Deseases: The Biology, Circumstances and Consequences of Cross-Species Transmission, (25), Springer-Verlag (Berlin, Heidelberg), pp 161-193.
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