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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Zoology and Entomology

Bastos, AD

MSc PhD(Pret) - Senior Lecturer

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Telephone number: 012 420 4612
Fax number: 012 362 5242
E-mail address: adbastos@zoology.up.ac.za

Research Interests:

Molecular epidemiology of wildlife diseases

Biology of fragmented populations; Conservation planning; Conservation and restoration ecology; and Biodiversity and systematics

Research Output:

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

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.

Janse van Rensburg L, Chimimba CT, Bastos AD, Chown SL: 2003. Morphometric measurement selection: An invertebrate case study based on weevils from sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Polar Biology, 27, pp 38-49.

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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