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Safety and immunogenicity of plant-produced African horse sickness virus-like particles in horses by Dennis, Susan J, O'Kennedy, Martha M, Rutkowska, Daria, Tsekoa, Tsepo, Lourens, Carina W, Hitzeroth, Inga I, Meyers, Ann E, Rybicki, Edward P

“…African horse sickness (AHS) is caused by multiple serotypes of the dsRNA AHSV and is a major scourge of domestic equids in Africa. While there are well…”
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Final-year medical students need to know their future supervisory role of clinical associates by Koortzen, Michiel, Biggs, Lourens W., Wolvaardt, Jacqueline, Turner, Astrid, Bac, Martin, Volpe, Mark

“…Background: A clinical associate (ClinA) is a mid-level health professional who may only practise under the supervision of a medical doctor. By extension,…”
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Serological response of foals to polyvalent and monovalent live-attenuated African horse sickness virus vaccines by Crafford, J.E, Lourens, C.W, Smit, T.K, Gardner, I.A, MacLachlan, N.J, Guthrie, A.J

“…Highlights • Neutralising antibody responses to the 9 serotypes of AHSV MLV vaccine were compared. • No enhanced immunity when monovalent as opposed to…”
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African horse sickness in naturally infected, immunised horses by WEYER, C. T., QUAN, M., JOONE, C., LOURENS, C. W., MacLACHLAN, N. J., GUTHRIE, A. J.

“…Summary To determine whether subclinical cases, together with clinical cases, of African horse sickness (AHS) occur in immunised horses in field conditions,…”
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Equine encephalosis in Thoroughbred foals on a South African stud farm by Grewar, John D, Thompson, Peter N, Lourens, Carina W, Guthrie, Alan J

“…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…”
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Development and optimisation of a duplex real-time reverse transcription quantitative PCR assay targeting the VP7 and NS2 genes of African horse sickness virus by Quan, M., Lourens, C.W., MacLachlan, N.J., Gardner, I.A., Guthrie, A.J.

“…Nucleotide sequences of 52 South African isolates of African horse sickness virus (AHSV) collected during 2004–2005 and including viruses of all nine AHSV…”
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Passive transfer and rate of decay of maternal antibody against African horse sickness virus in South African Thoroughbred foals by Crafford, J. E., Lourens, C. W., Gardner, I. A., Maclachlan, N. J., Guthrie, A. J.

“…Summary Reasons for performing study African horse sickness is an insect‐transmitted, noncontagious disease of equids caused by African horse sickness virus…”
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Protective immunity of plant-produced African horse sickness virus serotype 5 chimaeric virus-like particles (VLPs) and viral protein 2 (VP2) vaccines in IFNAR-/- mice by O'Kennedy, Martha M., Coetzee, Peter, Koekemoer, Otto, du Plessis, Lissinda, Lourens, Carina W., Kwezi, Lusisizwe, du Preez, Ilse, Mamputha, Sipho, Mokoena, Nobalanda B., Rutkowska, Daria A., Verschoor, Jan A., Lemmer, Yolandy

“…•Plant produced AHSV serotype 5 VLPs and VP2 vaccines compared in IFNAR-/- mice.•Adjuvanted AHSV-5 VLPs and VP2 resulting in high titres of neutralizing…”
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Prevalence of serotype specific antibody to equine encephalosis virus in Thoroughbred yearlings in South Africa (1999-2004) by Howell, P.G., Nel, Daleen, Nurton, P., Lourens, Carina W., Guthrie, A.J.

“…Cohorts of yearlings were sampled over a period of 6 years in a retrospective serological survey to establish the annual prevalence of serotype specific…”
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Haemochromatosis gene frequency in a control and diabetic Irish population by Kirk, L., Bird, J., Ramadan, S., Samad, A., Adebayo, G., Lourens, W., Williams, J.

“…Background Hereditary haemochromatosis is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. Two major mutations have been identified and the condition is emerging as…”
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Development of three triplex real-time reverse transcription PCR assays for the qualitative molecular typing of the nine serotypes of African horse sickness virus by Weyer, Camilla T., Joone, Christopher, Lourens, Carina W., Monyai, Mpho S., Koekemoer, Otto, Grewar, John D., van Schalkwyk, Antoinette, Majiwa, Phelix O.A., MacLachlan, N. James, Guthrie, Alan J.

“…•Three AHSV TS RT-qPCR assays can be applied directly to nucleic acid extracted from blood.•Multiplexing of the primers and probes for 9 AHSV serotypes…”
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Diagnostic accuracy of a duplex real-time reverse transcription quantitative PCR assay for detection of African horse sickness virus by Guthrie, Alan J., MacLachlan, N. James, Joone, Christopher, Lourens, Carina W., Weyer, Camilla T., Quan, Melvyn, Monyai, Mpho S., Gardner, Ian A.

“…► Diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of the AHSV RT-qPCR assay were 97.8% and 99.9%, respectively. ► Diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of AHSV…”
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Protective immunization of horses with a recombinant canarypox virus vectored vaccine co-expressing genes encoding the outer capsid proteins of African horse sickness virus by Guthrie, Alan J, Quan, Melvyn, Lourens, Carina W, Audonnet, Jean-Christophe, Minke, Jules M, Yao, Jiansheng, He, Ling, Nordgren, Robert, Gardner, Ian A, MacLachlan, N. James

“…Abstract We describe the development and preliminary characterization of a recombinant canarypox virus vectored (ALVAC® ) vaccine for protective immunization…”
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The WebUmbrella Web-based access to distributed plasma-physics measurement data by Niderost, B., van de Giessen, M., Lourens, W., Krom, J.

“…To provide plasma-physics scientists with worldwide access to historical and current measurement data from the Textor-94 Tokamak experiment, we developed a new…”
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Complete Genome Sequences of the Three African Horse Sickness Virus Strains from a Commercial Trivalent Live Attenuated Vaccine by Guthrie, Alan J, Coetzee, Peter, Martin, Darren P, Lourens, Carina W, Venter, Estelle H, Weyer, Camilla T, Joone, Christopher, le Grange, Misha, Harper, Cindy K, Howell, Peter G, MacLachlan, N James

“…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…”
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Complete Genome Sequences of Four African Horse Sickness Virus Strains from a Commercial Tetravalent Live Attenuated Vaccine by Guthrie, Alan J, Coetzee, Peter, Martin, Darren P, Lourens, Carina W, Venter, Estelle H, Weyer, Camilla T, Joone, Christopher, le Grange, Misha, Harper, Cindy K, Howell, Peter G, MacLachlan, N James

“…This is a report of the complete genome sequences of plaque-selected isolates of each of the four virus strains included in a South African commercial…”
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Objectivity/CORBA distributed database performance on a gigabit Sun-Ultra-10 cluster by Niderost, B.U., Gommans, L., Kemmerling, G., Korten, M., De Laat, C.T.A.M., Lourens, W., Van Der Meer, E.A.

“…Dynacore's project objective is to provide tools for the remote operation of large physics experiments. Our group concentrates on the design of a remote…”
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Troglitazone in combination with sulphonylurea improves glycaemic control in Type 2 diabetic patients inadequately controlled by sulphonylurea therapy alone by Buysschaert, M., Bobbioni, E., Starkie, M., Frith, L., Group, For The Troglitazone Study

“…Summary Aim The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of troglitazone (a peroxisome proliferator‐activated receptor‐γ agonist developed…”
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A software architecture for remote participation at the Textor-94 experiment by Nideröst, B.U, Gerritsen, A.A, van Haren, P.C, Lourens, W, Taal, A, Fuchs, C, Kemmerling, G, Korten, M, Kooijman, W, Oomens, A.A.M, Wijnoltz, F

“…The Trilateral Euregio Cluster (TEC) is a collaboration between three plasma-physics institutes: the Laboratory for Plasma Physics at the Koninklijke Militaire…”
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Draft Genome Sequence of Taylorella equigenitalis Strain ERC_G2224 Isolated from the Semen of a Lipizzaner Stallion in South Africa by May, Catherine E, Schulman, Martin L, Howell, Peter G, Lourens, Carina W, Gouws, Johan, Joone, Christopher, Monyai, Mpho S, le Grange, Misha, Bezuidt, Oliver K I, Harper, Cindy K, Guthrie, Alan J

“…Taylorella equigenitalis is the causative agent of contagious equine metritis (CEM), a sexually transmitted infection of horses. We report here the genome…”
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