Faculty of Veterinary Science
Equine Research Centre
Guthrie, AJ
BVSc(Hons) MMed Vet(Phys) PhD(Louisiana) - Professor and Head
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 529 8068
Fax number: 012 529 8301
E-mail address: alan.guthrie@up.ac.za
Research Interests:
Equine sports medicine
Race track surfaces
Important conditions of companion animals in the sub-Saharan region
Equine infectious diseases
Equine housing and welfare
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Bierman A, Guthrie AJ, Harper CK: 2010. Lavender foal syndrome in Arabian horses is caused by a single-base deletion in the MYO5A gene. Animal Genetics, 41 (2), pp 199-201.
Quan M, Lourens CW, MacLachlan NJ, Gardner IA, Guthrie AJ: 2010. Development and optimisation of a duplex real-time reverse transcription quantitative PCR assay targeting the VP7 and NS2 genes of African horse sickness virus. Journal of Virological Methods, (167), pp 45-52, Full Text
Bhoora R, Buss PE, Guthrie AJ, Penzhorn BL, Collins NE: 2010. Genetic diversity of piroplasms in plains zebra (Equus quagga burchellii) and Cape mountain zebra (Equus zebra zebra) in South Africa. Veterinary Parasitology, (174), pp 145-149.
Bhoora R, Quan M, Matjila PT, Zweygarth E, Guthrie AJ, Collins NE: 2010. Sequence heterogeneity in the equi merozoite antigen gene (ema-1) of Theileria equi and development of an ema-1-specific TaqMan MGBTM assay for the detection of T. equi. Veterinary Parasitology, 172, pp 33-45.
Bhoora R, Quan M, Zweygarth E, Guthrie AJ, Prinsloo SA, Collins NE: 2010. Sequence heterogeneity in the gene encoding the rhoptry associated protein-1 (RAP-1) of Babesia caballi isolates from South Africa. Veterinary Parasitology, 169, pp 279-288.
Bhoora R, Quan M, Franssen L, Butler CM, Van der Kolk JH, Guthrie AJ, Zweygarth E, Jongejan F, Collins NE: 2010. Development and evaluation of real-time PCR assays for the quantitative detection of Babesia caballi and Theileria equi infections in horses from South Africa. Veterinary Parasitology, 168, pp 201-211.
MacLachlan NJ, Guthrie AJ: 2010. Re-emergence of bluetongue, African horse sickness, and other Orbivirus diseases. Veterinary Research, 41 (35), pp 1-12, Full Text
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