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Faculty of Veterinary Science
Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases

Economically important diseases of livestock in the sub-Saharan region - Research Output

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Akoda K, Harouna S, Marcotty T, De Deken R, van den Bossche P: 2008. Investigations on the transmissibility of Trypanosoma congolense by the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans during its development ina mammalian host. Acta Tropica, 107, pp 17-19, Full Text

de la Fuente J, Blouin EF, Manzano-Roman R, Naranjo V, Almazan C, Perez de la Lastra JM, Zivkovic Z, Massung RF, Jongejan F: 2008. Differential Expression of the tick protective antigen subolesin in Anaplasma marginale- and A. phagocytophilum-infected host cells. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1149, pp 27-35.

Apanaskevich DA, Horak IG: 2008. The genus Hyalomma. VI. Systematics of H. (Euhyalomma) trancatum and the closely related species, H. (E.) albiparmatum and H. (E.) nitidum (Acari: Ixodidae). Experimental and Applied Acarology, 44, pp 115-136, Full Text

Lynen GM, Zeman P, Bakuname C, Di Giulio G, Mtui P, Sanka P, Jongejan F: 2008. Shifts in the distributional ranges of Boophilus ticks in Tanzania: evidence that a parapatric boundary between Boophilus microplus and B. decoloratus follows climate gradients. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 44, pp 147-164.

Apanaskevich DA, Horak IG: 2008. The genus Hyalomma Koch, 1844: V. Re-evaluation of the taxonomic rank of taxa comprising the H. (Euhyalomma) marginatum Koch complex of species (Acari: Ixodidae) with redescription of all parasitic stages and notes on biology. International Journal of Acarology, 34 (1), pp 13-42.

Apanaskevich DA, Schuster AL, Horak IG: 2008. The genus Hyalomma: VII. Redescription of all parasitic stages of H. (Euhyalomma) dromedarii and H. (E.) schulzei (Acari: Ixodidae) a. Journal of Medical Entomology, 45 (5), pp 817-831.

Hove T, Mukandi R, Bere M, Horak IG, Latif AA: 2008. Ixodid ticks infesting domestic goats in communal land areas of Zimbabwe. Journal of the South African Veterinary Association, 79 (3), pp 116-120, Full Text

Thompson BE, Latif AA, Oosthuizen MC, Troskie M, Penzhorn BL: 2008. Occurrence of Theileria parva infection in cattle on a farm in the Ladysmith district, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Journal of the South African Veterinary Association, 79 (1), pp 31-35, Full Text

Delespaux V, Dinka H, Masumu JM, van den Bossche P, Geerts S: 2008. Five-fold increase in Trypanosoma congolense isolates resistant to diminazene aceturate over a seven-year period in Eastern Zambia. Journal of the South African Veterinary Association, 11, pp 205-209, Full Text

Mamoudou A, Zoli A, Hamadama H, Bourdanne S, Abah S, Geerts S, Clausen P-H, Zessin K-H, Kyule M, van den Bossche P: 2008. Seasonal distribution and abundance of tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) in Faro and Deo Division of the Adamaoua Plateau in Cameroon. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 22, pp 32-36, Full Text

Van Rhijn I, Godfroid JXL, Michel A, Rutten VPMG: 2008. Bovine tuberculosis as a model for human tuberculosis: advantages over small animal models. Microbes and infection, 10, pp 711-715.

van Wyk JA: 2008. Production trials involving use of the FAMACHAŠ system for haemonchosis in sheep: Preliminary results. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 75, pp 331-345, Full Text

Phologane BS, Dwarka RM, Haydon DT, Gerber LJ, Vosloo W: 2008. Molecular characterization of SAT-2 foot-and-mouth disease virus isolates obtained from cattle during a four-month period in 2001 in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 75, pp 267-277, Full Text

Cloete M, Dungu B, Van Staden LI, Ismail-Cassim N, Vosloo W: 2008. Evaluation of different adjuvants for foot-and-mouth disease vaccine containing all the SAT serotypes. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 75, pp 17-31, Full Text

Babiuk SL, Bowden TR, Boyle DB, Wallace DB, Kitching RP: 2008. Capripoxviruses: An emerging worldwide threat to sheep, goats and cattle. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 55, pp 263-272, Full Text

Delespaux V, Geysen D, van den Bossche P, Geerts S: 2008. Molecular tools for the rapid detection of drug resistance in animal trypanosomes. Trends in Parasitology, 24 (5), pp 236-242, Full Text

Faburay B, Jongejan F, Taoufik A, Ceesay A, Geysen D: 2008. Genetic diversity of Ehrlichia ruminantium in Amblyomma variegatum ticks and small ruminants in The Gambia determined by restriction fragment profile analysis. Veterinary Microbiology, 126, pp 189-199.

Postigo M, Taoufik A, Bell-Sakyi L, Bekker CPJ, De Vries E, Morrison WI, Jongejan F: 2008. Host cell-specific protein expression in vitro in Ehrlichia ruminantium. Veterinary Microbiology, 128, pp 136-147.

MacLachlan NJ, Crafford JE, Vernau W, Gardner IA, Goddard A, Guthrie AJ, Venter EH: 2008. Experimental reproduction of severe bluetongue in sheep. Veterinary Pathology, 45, pp 310-315.

 

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