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The Role of Smallholder Pig Farmers in the Biosecurity of Pig Diseases in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

open access: yesVeterinary Medicine International, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Biosecurity forms an important component of preventing disease transmission. However, data on the demographics and practices of smallholder pig farmers in Southern Africa are scant, and little is published on the biosecurity related to these farms.
Vincent Simbizi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

RNA-seq analysis and gene expression dynamics in the salivary glands of the argasid tick Ornithodoros erraticus along the trophogonic cycle [PDF]

open access: gold, 2021
Ricardo Pérez–Sánchez   +4 more
openalex   +1 more source

First molecular assessment of the African swine fever virus status of Ornithodoros ticks from Swaziland

open access: yesOnderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2014
African swine fever (ASF) is an economically significant haemorrhagic disease of domestic pigs. It is caused by the African swine fever virus (ASFV), a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)arbovirus.
Carin I. Boshoff   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Infestação por carrapatos Argasidae e Ixodidae em pequenos mamíferos silvestres da Estação Experimental Rafael Fernandes, Mossoró/RN

open access: yesPesquisa Veterinária Brasileira
RESUMO: Poucos estudos avaliaram a diversidade de ectoparasitos e a associação deles com seus hospedeiros que ocorrem no bioma Caatinga, Nordeste do Brasil.
Josivania S. Pereira   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

African Swine Fever Virus DNA in Soft Ticks, Senegal

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2007
African swine fever is a highly contagious disease of pigs in Africa. Although its persistence in Senegal may be caused by asymptomatic carriers involved in the domestic transmission cycle, we demonstrated that the soft tick Ornithodoros sonrai can be ...
Laurence Vial   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Alkhurma Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ornithodoros savignyi Ticks

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2007
Evidence for the tickborne nature of Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever virus (AHFV) is indirect because AHFV has not been detected in arthropods. One Ornithodoros savignyi tick from Saudi Arabia contained AHFV RNA. This is the first direct evidence that AHFV is
Rémi N. Charrel   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Molecular Characterization of Tickborne Relapsing Fever Borrelia, Israel

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2006
Blood samples from 18 tickborne relapsing fever (TBRF) patients and Ornithodoros tholozani specimens were tested with a Borrelia flaB-PCR. Results were positive for all patients and 2%–40% of ticks.
Marc Victor Assous   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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