Investigation of the gammaherpesvirus carrier status of black wildebeest (Connochaetes gnou)
Malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) is a mostly fatal lymphoproliferative disease in cattle, pigs, farmed deer, bison and a range of wild ungulates in zoos and game parks. The disease in domestic cattle is caused by either alcelaphine herpesvirus type 1 (AlHV–1) or ovine herpesvirus type 2 (OvHV–2). Bot...
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University of Pretoria
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26746 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07282008-095419/ |