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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology

Markotter, W

MSc (Micro), PhD - Lecturer

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Contact Details:

Telephone number: 420 4602
Fax number: 420 3266
E-mail address: wanda.markotter@up.ac.za

Research Interests:

Evolution of Rhabdoviruses and epidemiology of lyssaviruses

Lyssavirus vaccines

West Nile virus

Lyssaviruses

Avian Influenza virus

Pathogenesis and diagnosis of West Nile virus in South Africa

Research Output:

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Botha EM, Markotter W, Wolfaardt M, Paweska JT, Swanepoel R, Palacios G, Nel LH, Venter M: 2008. Genetic Determinants of Virulence in Pathogenic Lineage 2 West Nile Virus Strains. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 14 (2) / Feb, pp 222-230, Full Text

Kuzmin IV, Niezgoda M, Franka R, Agwanda B, Markotter W, Beagley JC, Urazova OY, Breiman RF, Rupprecht CE: 2008. Possible Emergence of West Caucasian Bat Virus in Africa. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 14 (12) / Dec, pp 1887-1889, Full Text

Coetzee P, Weyer J, Paweska JT, Burt FJ, Markotter W, Nel LH: 2008. Use of a molecular epidemiological database to track human rabies case histories in South Africa. Epidemiology and Infection, 136 / Oct, pp 1270-1276, Full Text

Kuzmin IV, Niezgoda M, Franka R, Agwanda B, Markotter W, Beagley JC, Urazova OY, Breiman RF, Rupprecht CE: 2008. Lagos bat virus in Kenya. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 46 (4) / Apr, pp 1451-1461, Full Text

Markotter W, Kuzmin I, Rupprecht CE, Nel LH: 2008. Phylogeny of Lagos bat virus: Challenges for lyssavirus taxonomy. Virus Research, 135, pp 10-21.

 

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