Infectivity of Trichinella sp. isolated from Crocodylus niloticus to the indigenous Zimbabwean pig (Mukota)S Mukaratirwa
Faculty of Veterinary Science, Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
Int J Parasitol 29:1129-31. 1999
..The present study constitutes the first report of a successful experimental infection of the pig with Trichinella sp. originating from crocodile...
- A survey of parasitic nematode infections of chickens in rural Zimbabwe
S Mukaratirwa
Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, Harare
Onderstepoort J Vet Res 68:183-6. 2001
..Capillaria obsignata, Capillaria contorta and Trichostrongylus tenuis are new records in Zimbabwe. Allodapa brumpti and Tetrameres americana were the most common species with a prevalence of 64.8% and 64.1%, respectively...
- Feline nasal and paranasal sinus tumours: clinicopathological study, histomorphological description and diagnostic immunohistochemistry of 123 cases
S Mukaratirwa
Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University
J Feline Med Surg 3:235-45. 2001
..Six cases of malignant lymphomas were proved to be epitheliotropic T-cell lymphomas. This is the first report of a primary nasal epitheliotropic T-cell lymphoma in cats...
- Tenascin and proteoglycans: the role of tenascin and proteoglycans in canine tumours
S Mukaratirwa
Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, P O Box 80 158, 3508 TD, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Res Vet Sci 73:1-8. 2002
..This review focuses on the role of tenascin and proteoglycans in neoplasia and recent developments in canine tumours...
- Effect of host age in the distribution of adult Trichinella zimbabwensis in the small intestines of golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) and Balb C mice
S Mukaratirwa
Faculty of Veterinary Science, Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, P O Box MP 167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
Onderstepoort J Vet Res 70:169-73. 2003
..From this study it was demonstrated that host-age had no effect on the distribution of T. zimbabwensis adult worms in the different segments of the small intestines of golden hamsters and Balb C mice...
- Epidemiological studies of parasitic gastrointestinal nematodes, cestodes and coccidia infections in cattle in the highveld and lowveld communal grazing areas of Zimbabwe
D M Pfukenyi
Clinical Veterinary Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, P O Box MP167, Mt Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
Onderstepoort J Vet Res 74:129-42. 2007
..These findings are discussed with reference to their relevance for strategic control of GI parasites in cattle in communal grazing areas of Zimbabwe...
- Epidemiological studies of Schistosoma mattheei infections in cattle in the highveld and lowveld communal grazing areas of Zimbabwe
D M Pfukenyi
Department of Clinical Veterinary Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, P O Box MP167, Mt Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
Onderstepoort J Vet Res 73:179-91. 2006
..mattheei and S. haematobium since they share the same intermediate host. The transmission of Schistosoma cercariae exhibited a marked seasonal pattern, being more intensive during the hot, dry season (September/November)...
- Epidemiological studies of amphistome infections in cattle in the highveld and lowveld communal grazing areas of Zimbabwe
D M Pfukenyi
Central Veterinary Laboratory, Diagnostic and Research Branch, P O Box CY 551, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe
Onderstepoort J Vet Res 72:67-86. 2005
..To reduce cercarial shedding by the intermediate host snails molluscicides can also be applied during the peak transmission periods (April/May and August/September)...
- Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in goats and sheep in Zimbabwe
T Hove
Parasitology Section, Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, P O Box MP167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
Onderstepoort J Vet Res 72:267-72. 2005
..Overall, significantly higher proportions of seropositive animals had antibody titres of 1:50 (34.2% of 225) and 1:100 (44% of 225) as compared to the 9.8% and 12% with antibody titres of 1:200 and > or =1:400, respectively...
- Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in domestic pigs reared under different management systems in Zimbabwe
T Hove
Parasitology Section, Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
Onderstepoort J Vet Res 72:231-7. 2005
..The serosurvey shows the importance of modern intensive husbandry systems in reducing the prevalences of T. gondii infection in domestic pigs...
- Epidemiological studies of Fasciola gigantica infections in cattle in the highveld and lowveld communal grazing areas of Zimbabwe
D M Pfukenyi
Department of Clinical Veterinary Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, P O Box MP167, Mt Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
Onderstepoort J Vet Res 73:37-51. 2006
..first application of molluscicides to control the snail intermediate hosts can be done in June the time when the snail is harbouring the parasite and a second application in September in order to kill new generations of infected snails..
- Epidemiology and control of trematode infections in cattle in Zimbabwe: a review
D M Pfukenyi
Central Veterinary Laboratory, Diagnostic and Research Branch, PO Box CY551, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe
J S Afr Vet Assoc 76:9-17. 2005
..The regional distribution of the trematodes is reviewed in relation to the distribution patterns of their snail intermediate hosts. Based on the epidemiological features of the trematodes, practical control measures are suggested...
- Canine cutaneous neoplasms: prevalence and influence of age, sex and site on the presence and potential malignancy of cutaneous neoplasms in dogs from Zimbabwe
S Mukaratirwa
Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, University of Zimbabwe, P O Box MP 167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
J S Afr Vet Assoc 76:59-62. 2005
..Lymphohistiocytic tumours were 10 times more likely to occur at multiple locations as opposed to single locations...
- First report of a field outbreak of the oriental eye-fluke, Philophthalmus gralli (Mathis & Leger 1910), in commercially reared ostriches (Struthio camelus) in Zimbabwe
S Mukaratirwa
Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
Onderstepoort J Vet Res 72:203-6. 2005
..To the best of our knowledge this is the first record of the oriental eye-fluke infection in birds in Zimbabwe and Africa and extends its known geographical range...
- Versican and hyaluronan expression in canine colonic adenomas and carcinomas: relation to malignancy and depth of tumour invasion
S Mukaratirwa
Department of Pathobiology, Division of Pathology, Utrecht University, P. O. Box 80158, Yalelaan 1, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands
J Comp Pathol 131:259-70. 2004
..These results suggest that altered levels of both versican and hyaluronan in canine colonic tumours affect tumour progression...
- Bovine intestinal cellular responses following primary and challenge infections with Calicophoron microbothrium metacercariae
M Mavenyengwa
Faculty of Veterinary Science, Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, University of Zimbabwe, Harare
Onderstepoort J Vet Res 75:109-20. 2008
..05) as compared to those of the control group. The study indicates that cattle can develop resistance to C. microbothrium re-infection and that eosinophils and mast cells may be important cells in the rejection of the parasite...
- Observations on mass production of Calicophoron microbothrium metacercariae from experimentally and naturally infected Bulinus tropicus
M Mavenyengwa
Faculty of Veterinary Science, Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
Onderstepoort J Vet Res 73:95-100. 2006
..Eighty-four percent of the snails died within 7 weeks of the study with peak mortality occurring from the 2nd to the 4th week of infection and coinciding with an overall decrease in the number of cercariae shed...
Influence of Calicophoron microbothrium amphistomosis on the biochemical and blood cell counts of cattleM Mavenyengwa
Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, Mt Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
J Helminthol 84:355-61. 2010
..05) in the circulating eosinophils occurred between 7 and 21 days post-infection in the LD and the HD groups...
- Relationship between cell proliferation and tenascin-C expression in canine gastrointestinal tumours and normal mucosa
S Mukaratirwa
Department of Pathobiology, Division of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80158, Yalelaan 1, 3058 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands
Res Vet Sci 76:133-8. 2004
..The absence of a correlation between tenascin and Ki-67 expression suggests that the main function of tenascin in both normal tissues and tumours of the canine gastrointestinal tract is antiadhesion rather than proliferation...
- Transmission studies on Trichinella species isolated from Crocodylus niloticus and efficacy of fenbendazole and levamisole against muscle L1 stages in Balb C mice
S Mukaratirwa
Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, Mt Pleasant, Harare
Onderstepoort J Vet Res 68:21-5. 2001
..It is not certain whether the parasite was transmitted congenitally or transmammary Alternative ways of controlling the parasite in crocodile farms in Zimbabwe are discussed...
- Susceptibility of 7 freshwater gastropod species in Zimbabwe to infection with Gastrodiscus aegyptiacus (Cobbold, 1876) Looss, 1896
S Mukaratirwa
Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, Box MP 167 Mt Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
J S Afr Vet Assoc 75:186-8. 2004
..Bulinus tropicus is considered as the most likely major intermediate host of G. aegyptiacus because of its wide distribution in Zimbabwe and is well adapted to a wide variety of environments...
- A macro- and light microscopical study of the pathology of Calicophoron microbothrium infection in experimentally infected cattle
M Mavenyengwa
Faculty of Veterinary Science, Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
Onderstepoort J Vet Res 72:321-32. 2005
..On Day 56 pi, a few glands were still cystic in the MD and the HD groups. Moderate cell infiltrations were still present in the lamina propria of all the three groups and by Day 84 pi complete regeneration had occurred in all animals...
- Canine transmissible venereal tumour: assessment of mast cell numbers as indicators of the growth phase
S Mukaratirwa
Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
Vet Res Commun 30:613-21. 2006
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- Preliminary characterisation of Toxoplasma gondii isolates from Zimbabwe, with stage-specific monoclonal antibodies
T Hove
Parasitology Section, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, Harare
Ann Trop Med Parasitol 99:377-82. 2005
..25, 5.1 and anti-P(30) indicated that all the isolates are probably of genetic type II. Each of the isolates reacted in the IFAT in a similar way to the Danish reference strain of T. gondii, SSI-119...
- Combination therapy using intratumoral bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) and vincristine in dogs with transmissible venereal tumours: therapeutic efficacy and histological changes
S Mukaratirwa
Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, University of Zimbabwe, PO Box MP 167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
J S Afr Vet Assoc 80:92-6. 2009
..This study indicates that combined BCG and vincristine therapy is more effective than vincristine in treating CTVT, suggesting that the clinical course of this disease may be altered by immunochemotherapy...
- Tenascin expression in relation to stromal tumour cells in canine gastrointestinal epithelial tumours
S Mukaratirwa
Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, PO Box 80158, Yalelan 1, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands
J Comp Pathol 129:137-46. 2003
..There was a strong co-localization of tenascin and alpha-SMA-expressing myofibroblasts, suggesting that myofibroblasts are responsible for tenascin secretion...
- Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in farm-reared ostriches and wild game species from Zimbabwe
T Hove
Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, Harare
Acta Trop 94:49-53. 2005
..Attempts to isolate T. gondii from the heart muscles of seropositve ostriches by subinoculation in BALB/c mice were unsuccessful...
- Prevalence of Libyostrongylus douglassii in commercially reared ostriches in the highveld region of Zimbabwe
S Mukaratirwa
Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, PO Box MP 167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
J Helminthol 78:333-6. 2004
..Wireworm infections were not taken into consideration by farmers during buying and selling of birds...
- Prognostic and predictive markers in canine tumours: rationale and relevance. A review
S Mukaratirwa
Department of Paraclinical Studies, Pathology Section, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, Harare
Vet Q 27:52-64. 2005
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- Outbreak of disseminated zygomycosis and concomitant pulmonary aspergillosis in breeder layer cockerels
S Mukaratirwa
Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, PO Box MP 167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
J Vet Med B Infect Dis Vet Public Health 53:51-3. 2006
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- A comparison of the susceptibility of growing mukota and large white pigs to infection with Ascaris suum
J Zanga
Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, University of Zimbabwe, PO Box MP 167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
Vet Res Commun 27:653-60. 2003
..These preliminary findings suggest that more A. suum larvae reached the livers in the LW than in the Mukota pigs and that the latter may be more resistant to A. suum infection...
- A retrospective study of the prevalence and seasonal variation of Fasciola gigantica in cattle slaughtered in the major abattoirs of Zimbabwe between 1990 and 1999
D M Pfukenyi
Central Veterinary Laboratory, Diagnostic and Research Branch, Harare, Zimbabwe
Onderstepoort J Vet Res 71:181-7. 2004
..05). Based on the study findings a control programme for the disease in Zimbabwe is suggested...
- Experimental infections of baboons (Papio spp.) and vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) with Trichinella zimbabwensis and successful treatment with ivermectin
S Mukaratirwa
Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, P O Box MP 167 Mount Pleasant Harare, Zimbabwe
Onderstepoort J Vet Res 75:173-80. 2008
..Five consecutive treatments with an oxfendazole-levamisole combination on surviving animals failed to clear the infection whereas ivermectin cleared the infection after one treatment in two monkeys and after two treatments in a baboon...
- Canine transmissible venereal tumour: cytogenetic origin, immunophenotype, and immunobiology. A review
S Mukaratirwa
University of Zimbabwe, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Department of Paraclinical Studies, Mount Pleasant, Harare
Vet Q 25:101-11. 2003
..This review examines the current state of knowledge of the aspects of the cytogenetic origin, immunophenotype, immunobiology and immunotherapy of CTVT...
- Canine subclinical prostatic disease: histological prevalence and validity of digital rectal examination as a screening test
S Mukaratirwa
Pathology Section, Department of Paraclinical Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, P O Box MP 167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
J S Afr Vet Assoc 78:66-8. 2007
..The prevalence of subclinical BPH and prostatitis were higher in intact than castrated dogs. DRE had a high specificity (75%) and positive predictive value (87%), but a low sensitivity (53%) and negative predictive value (34%)...
- Partial facial duplication (diprosopus) in a goat kid
S Mukaratirwa
Department of Paraclinical Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, PO Box MP 167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
J S Afr Vet Assoc 77:42-4. 2006
..The olfactory tract was absent and the superficial origins of most of the cranial nerves were not discernible...
- Larval trematode infections in freshwater snails from the highveld and lowveld areas of Zimbabwe
G Chingwena
University of Zimbabwe, Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, Box MP 167, Harare, Zimbabwe
J Helminthol 76:283-93. 2002
..The main intermediate host for amphistomes was B. tropicus. Infections in B. globosus, B. forskalii and Biomphalaria pfeifferi with amphistome cercariae are new records for Zimbabwe...
- Medical and veterinary doctors, social scientists and agricultural researchers meet to carry forward the fight against cysticercosis, a neglected and fatal disease of the poor
S Mukaratirwa
CWGESA Chairperson, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
J S Afr Vet Assoc 79:2. 2008
- Effects of Acacia nilotica and Acacia karoo diets on Haemonchus contortus infection in goats
C Kahiya
Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, PO Box MP167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
Vet Parasitol 115:265-74. 2003
..05) and by 10% in the AN group (non-significant) relative to the infected control group. The study indicates that the difference in the effects of the two forages on HC infections may be related to type and concentration of tannins...
- A questionnaire survey of the management and use of anthelmintics in cattle and antelope in mixed farming systems in Zimbabwe
O Madzingira
Department of Paraclinical Veterinary Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, Harare
J S Afr Vet Assoc 73:70-3. 2002
..However, results from the survey on the deworming of game indicate that farmers perceived helminth infections in antelope to be important...
- Stromal cells and extracellular matrix components in spontaneous canine transmissible venereal tumour at different stages of growth
S Mukaratirwa
Department of Pathobiology, Utrecht University
Histol Histopathol 19:1117-23. 2004
..001). This suggests that hyaluronan is involved in the growth of the tumour. There was no significant difference in the expression of chondroitin sulphate and versican in progressing and regressing tumours...
- Trichinella zimbabwensis n.sp. (Nematoda), a new non-encapsulated species from crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) in Zimbabwe also infecting mammals
E Pozio
Laboratory of Parasitology, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
Int J Parasitol 32:1787-99. 2002
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- Trichinella papuae and Trichinella zimbabwensis induce infection in experimentally infected varans, caimans, pythons and turtles
E Pozio
Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Viale Regina Elena 299, 0061 Rome, Italy
Parasitology 128:333-42. 2004
..papuae and T. zimbabwensis was observed in varans. The results show that T. papuae and T. zimbabwensis are able to complete their entire life-cycle in both poikilothermic and homoiothermic animals...
