Faculty of Veterinary Science
Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases
Economically important diseases of livestock in the sub-Saharan region - Postgraduate Student Projects
Dissertations/Theses:
Matjila PT: Molecular detection and characterization of tick-borne pathogens of dogs (Prof BL Penzhorn, Prof F Jongejan, Prof AL Leisewitz)
Chitray M: Investigating potential factors affecting foot-and-mouth disease virus internalisation (Prof W Vosloo, F Maree)
De Matos CA: Species composition and geographic distribution of ticks infesting cattle, goats and dogs in Maputo Province, Mozambique (Prof IG Horak, L Neves, Dr NR Bryson)
Modibedi LG: Development of a single real-time RT-PCR method for the group specific identification of African horse-sickness virus and bluetongue virus (Dr JJO Koekemoer)
Modumo J: Determination of the minimum protective dose for a live attennated bluetong virus serotype 2 and 4 vaccine in sheep (Prof EH Venter)
Olds CL: The isolation and characterization of a Babesia bovis stock from outbreak on a farm in the Swartberg region of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Prof AA Latif, Dr NE Collins)
Rakabe MM: Selection of chicken single-chain antibody fragments directed against recombinant VP7 for bluetonge virus (Dr J Fehrsen)
Thema N: Cellular immune response induced in vitro by secreted proteins of Ehrlichia ruminantium (Dr M van Kleef, A Pretorius)
Tshabe VE: Developing an immunological assay for African Horsesickness Virus using a recombinant VP2 subunit expressed in different Baculovirus systems (Dr JA Heath)
Wemmer S: Expression and engineering of recombinant antibodies directed against a heat-shock protein of Mycobacterium bovis (Dr J Fehrsen, Dr DH Du Plessis)
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