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Equine encephalosis in Thoroughbred foals on a South African stud farm

Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2015
Thoroughbred foal body temperature data were collected from shortly after birth until shortly after weaning during the 2007/2008 season on a stud farm in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.
John D. Grewar, Peter N. Thompson, Carina W. Lourens, Alan J. Guthrie   +3 more
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Emerg Infect Dis

African horse sickness (AHS) is a highly infectious and often fatal disease caused by 9 serotypes of the orbivirus African horse sickness virus (AHSV). In March 2020, an AHS outbreak was reported in Thailand in which AHSV serotype 1 was identified as the

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Prevalence of serotype specific antibody to equine encephalosis virus in Thoroughbred yearlings South Africa (1999-2004)

Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2008
Cohorts of yearlings were sampled over a period of 6 years in a retrospective serological survey to establish the annual prevalence of serotype specific antibody to equine encephalosis virus on Thoroughbred stud farms distributed within defined ...
P. G. Howell, Jane P. Nurton, Daleen Nel, Carina W. Lourens, A. J. Guthrie   +4 more
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The origins of a new Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense sleeping sickness outbreak in eastern Uganda.

, 2001
BACKGROUND: Sleeping sickness, caused by two trypanosome subspecies, Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, is a parasitic disease transmitted by the tsetse fly in sub-Saharan Africa.
JW Magona, Fèvre, EM, Magona, JW, Coleman, PG, MEJ Woolhouse, Welburn, SC, Woolhouse, ME, SC Welburn, PG Coleman, EM Fèvre, Odiit, M, M Odiit   +11 more
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Complete Genome Sequences of the Three African Horse Sickness Virus Strains from a Commercial Trivalent Live Attenuated Vaccine

, 2015
This is a report of the complete genome sequences of plaque-selected isolates of each of the three virus strains included in a South African commercial trivalent African horse sickness attenuated live virus ...
Howell, Peter G., Coetzee, Peter, Guthrie, Alan J., Lourens, Carina W., Martin, Darren P., le Grange, Misha, Harper, Cindy K., MacLachlan, James, Joone, Christopher, Weyer, Camilla T., Venter, Estelle H.   +10 more
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Detection of African horse sickness virus in Culicoides imicola pools using RT-qPCR

, 2016
African horse sickness (AHS) is an infectious, non-contagious arthropod-borne disease of equids, caused by the African horse sickness virus (AHSV), an orbivirus of the Reoviridae family.
De Waal, Tania, Venter, Gert J., Mienie, Charlotte M.S., Liebenberg, Danica, Van Hamburg, Huib   +4 more
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Real time RT-PCR assays for detection and typing of African horse sickness virus.

PLoS ONE, 2014
Although African horse sickness (AHS) can cause up to 95% mortality in horses, naïve animals can be protected by vaccination against the homologous AHSV serotype.
Katarzyna Bachanek-Bankowska, Sushila Maan, Javier Castillo-Olivares, Nicola M Manning, Narender Singh Maan, Abraham C Potgieter, Antonello Di Nardo, Geoff Sutton, Carrie Batten, Peter P C Mertens   +9 more
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Development of an African horse sickness VP6 DIVA diagnostic ELISA

Virology Journal
Background African horse sickness (AHS) is a severe, noncontagious disease of equines caused by the African horse sickness virus (AHSV). The virus has nine serotypes and is transmitted by the Culicoides midge. AHS is endemic in South Africa and other sub-
Munyaradzi Tinarwo, Susan J. Dennis, Inga I. Hitzeroth, Ann E. Meyers, Edward P. Rybicki, Sandiswa Mbewana   +5 more
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Exploring the potential of tick transcriptomes for virus screening: A data reuse approach for tick-borne virus surveillance.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
BackgroundWe set out to investigate the utility of publicly available tick transcriptomic data to identify and characterize known and recently described tick-borne viruses, using de novo assembly and subsequent protein database alignment and taxonomical ...
Koray Ergunay, Brian P Bourke, Yvonne-Marie Linton   +2 more
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Plenary Abstracts Session & Oral Presentations

HemaSphere, Volume 10, Issue S1, June 2026.
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