Research News

Understanding bluetongue and lumpy skin disease

Posted on September 18, 2015

Prof Estelle Venter studies diseases that can have significant implications for farmers and communities, particularly bluetongue and lumpy skin disease, which occur predominantly in livestock.

ERC Celebrates 25 Years - here are two early publications (edited)

Posted on September 07, 2015

Time for reflection. These are two early publications presented by the Equine Research Centre.

Equine Research Centre celebrates 25 Years - how it all began

Posted on September 07, 2015

Prof Guthrie talks about the establishment of ERC.

BREAKING NEWS ... two groundbreaking research publications

Posted on September 07, 2015

It is fitting that, as it celebrates 25 years of operation, ERC has released these two papers

qPCR-based national surveillance programme to determine the distribution and prevalence of Taylorella equigenitalis in SA horses

Posted on June 13, 2015

qPCR-based national surveillance programme for Taylorella equigenitalis in SA horses

Detection of EHV-4 and physiological stress patterns in young Thoroughbreds consigned to a South African auction sales

Posted on June 13, 2015

Determining the physiologicsl stress patterns in young horses at sales

Research on the influence of temperature on the vectors of African horse sickness conducted at UP

Posted on November 27, 2014

Research done at the University of Pretoria has found that the abundant occurrence of two species of midges that cause AHS could be due to their ability to withstand cold temperatures.