Abstract
The following are abstracts of papers and posters presented at the 39th Annual Congress of the Parasitological Society of Southern Africa (PARSA), 10-13 October 2010, Drakensville Resort, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Highlights
Not widely spread throughout the country, malaria still remains one of the most important diseases of public health importance in South and southern Africa
For a long time malaria was viewed as a country specific disease but recent trends in disease patterns have indicated that malaria is best viewed as a disease of regional importance
Compared to a baseline year of 2000, malaria incidence in South Africa has decreased by 99 % in KwaZulu-Natal, 99 % in Swaziland and the prevalence in Mozambique has decreased by 96 %
Summary
In Argulus an extended proboscis and pre-oral spine occur. Blister cells occur in the posterior midgut and are involved in processing of digestive waste. In Chonopeltis R/F cells occur with both absorption and digestive waste involvement. Theileria genus-specific probes on the reverse line blot (RLB) assay, indicating the presence of a novel species or variant of existing species. Some of these specimens were investigated further by microscopic, serological, sequencing and phylogenetic analysis. A species-specific RLB probe, designed in the hypervariable V4 region of the 18S rRNA gene to detect the novel Babesia sp., was used to screen an additional 137 cheetah blood specimens for the presence of the species. Combined use of fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and real-time PCR to discriminate between
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