The Potential of Plant-Produced Virus-like Particle Vaccines for African Horse Sickness and Other Equine Orbiviruses. [PDF]
PathogensAfrican horse sickness is a devastating viral disease of equids. It is transmitted by biting midges of the genus Culicoides with mortalities reaching over 90% in naïve horses. It is endemic to sub-Saharan Africa and is seasonally endemic in many parts of
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A review of African horse sickness and its implications for Ireland [PDF]
Irish Veterinary Journal, 2012 African horse sickness is an economically highly important non-contagious but infectious Orbivirus disease that is transmitted by various species of Culicoides midges.
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Descriptive epidemiology of African horse sickness in Zimbabwe
Onderstepoort J Vet Res, 2013 A study of the prevalence of African horse sickness in horses was conducted, using records from two private equine practices in Harare for the period 1998–2004. Results indicated a higher prevalence of the disease in horses in Zimbabwe in the late rainy season (March – May).
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African horse sickness: a description of outbreaks in Namibia [PDF]
Veterinaria Italiana, 2009 African horse sickness is a vector-transmitted viral disease that affects equidae. The authors report cases of disease that occurred in Namibia between 2006 and 2008.
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African horse sickness in naturally infected, immunised horses [PDF]
Equine Veterinary Journal, 2012 Summary To determine whether subclinical cases, together with clinical cases, of African horse sickness (AHS) occur in immunised horses in field conditions, whole blood samples were collected and rectal temperatures recorded weekly from 50 Nooitgedacht ponies resident in open camps at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of ...
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Seroprevalence and Risk Factors of African Horse Sickness in Three Agroecological Zones of Cameroon. [PDF]
Vet Med Int, 2022 African horse sickness (AHS), a highly fatal arbovirosis of equines is endemic in sub-Saharan Africa. However, its epidemiology is poorly known in Cameroon. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence profile and risk factors of African horse sickness
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African Horse Sickness Virus Serotype 1 on Horse Farm, Thailand, 2020. [PDF]
Emerg Infect Dis, 2021 To investigate an outbreak of African horse sickness (AHS) on a horse farm in northeastern Thailand, we used whole-genome sequencing to detect and characterize the virus. The viruses belonged to serotype 1 and contained unique amino acids (95V,166S, 660I
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Development of Differentiating Infected from Vaccinated Animals (DIVA) Real-Time PCR for African Horse Sickness Virus Serotype 1. [PDF]
Emerg Infect Dis, 2022 African horse sickness (AHS) is a highly infectious and often fatal disease caused by 9 serotypes of the orbivirus African horse sickness virus (AHSV).
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Comparative immune responses after vaccination with the formulated inactivated African horse sickness vaccine serotype 1 between naïve horses and pretreated horses with the live-attenuated African horse sickness vaccine. [PDF]
Vet World, 2022 Background and Aim: African horse sickness (AHS) is a non-contagious, high mortality, and insect-borne disease caused by a double-stranded RNA virus from the genus Orbivirus.
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Pathological features of African horse sickness virus infection in IFNAR<sup>-/-</sup> mice. [PDF]
Front Vet Sci, 2023 African Horse Sickness (AHS) is a vector-borne viral disease of equids. The disease can be highly lethal with mortality rates of up to 90% in non-immune equine populations.
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