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

Theron, J

BSc(Hons) MSc PhD(Pret) - Associate Professor

NRF Rating: C2

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Telephone number: 012 420 2994
Fax number: 012 420 3266
E-mail address: jacques.theron@up.ac.za

Research Interests:

Molecular genetics of orbiviruses

Inactivation of bacterial genes to alter morphology

Construction and charactization of viral protein

Research Output:

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Theron J, Cloete TE, Kwaadsteniet M: 2010. Current molecular and emerging nanobiotechnology approaches for the detection of Microbial Pathogens. Critical Reviews in Microbiology, 36 (4) / November, pp 318-339.

Dungu B, Brett B, MacDonald R, Deville S, Dupuis L, Theron J, Bragg RR: 2010. Study on the efficacy and safety of different antigens and oil formulations of infectious coryza vaccines containing an NAD-independent strain ofAvibacterium paragallinarum. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 76 (3), pp 299-309, Full Text

Reeve R, Blignaut B, Esterhuysen JJ, Opperman PA, Matthews L, Fry EE, De Beer TAP, Theron J, Rieder E, Vosloo W, Oneill HG, Haydon DT, Maree FF: 2010. Sequence-Based Prediction for Vaccine Strain Selection and Identification of Antigenic Variability in Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus. PLoS Computational Biology, 6 (12), p. e1001027, Full Text

 

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