Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Zoology and Entomology
Molecular epidemiology of wildlife diseases - Research Output
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Phiri I, Ngowi H, Afonso S, Matenga E, Boa M, Mukaratirwa S, Githigia S, Saimo M, Sikasunge C, Maingi N, Lubega GW, Kassuku A, Michael L, Siziya S, Krecek RC, Noormahomed E, Vilhena M, Dorny P, Willingham AL: 2003. The emergence of Taenia solium Cysticercosis in Eastern and Southern Africa as a serious agricultural problem and public health risk. Acta Tropica, 87, pp 13-23.
Mafojane NA, Appleton CC, Krecek RC, Michael LM, Willingham AL: 2003. The current status of neurocysticercosis in Eastern and Southern Africa. Acta Tropica, 87, pp 25-33.
Bastos AD, Penrith ML, Cruciere C, Edrich JL, Hutchings GH, Roger F, Couacy-Hymann E, Thomson GR: 2003. Genotyping field strains of African swine fever virus by partial p72 gene characterisation. Archives of Virology, 148, pp 693-706.
Bastos AD, Haydon D, Sangare O, Boshoff CI, Edrich JL, Thomson GR: 2003. The implications of virus diversity within the SAT 2 serotype for control of foot-and-mouth disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of General Virology, 84, pp 1595-1606.
King DP, Reid SM, Hutchings GH, Grierson SS, Wilkinson PJ, Dixon LK, Bastos AD, Drew TW: 2003. Development of a TaqMan PCR assay with internal amplification control for the detection of African swine fever virus. Journal of Virological Methods, 107, pp 53-61.
Knobel D, Liebenberg A, du Toit JT: 2003. Seroconversion in captive African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) following administration of a chicken head bait/SAG-2 oral rabies vaccine combination. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 70, pp 73-77.
Sangare O, Bastos AD, Venter EH, Vosloo W: 2003. Retrospective genetic analysis of SAT-1 type foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in West Africa (1975-1981). Veterinary Microbiology, 93, pp 279-289.
Bastos AD, Anderson EC, Bengis RG, Keet DF, Winterbach HK, Thomson GR: 2003. Molecular epidemiology of SAT3-type foot-and-mouth disease. Virus Genes, 27 (3), pp 283-290.
Thomson GR, Vosloo W, Bastos AD: 2003. Foot and mouth disease in wildlife. Virus Research, 91, pp 145-161.
Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings:
Thomson GR, Dungu-Kimbenga B, Tounkara K, Vosloo W, Bastos AD, Bidjeh K: 2003. Suitability of currently available vaccines for controlling the major transboundary diseases that afflict sub-Saharan Africa. In Proceedings from the World Organization of Animal Health (OIE) Symposium: Developments in Biologicals Vol 114 - Vaccines for OIE List A and Emerging Diseases, Karger (Basel), pp 229-241.
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