One Health

• Prevalence and characterization of Brucella spp. in slaughter animals in Gauteng province abattoirs: food safety implications for meat consumers and zoonotic hazards posed to abattoir workers
• Zoonotic tuberculosis transmission at the wildlife/livestock/human interface
• The epidemiology of tuberculosis in cattle and humans living in the wildlife/livestock/human interface in the rural Mnisi community, Mpumalnaga province, South Africa

Epidemiology

• Prevalence and characterization of brucellosis and tuberculosis in Rwanda
• Seroprevalence and characterization of Brucella melitensis in South Africa
• Brucellosis in Zimbabwe and the associated risk factors
• Prevention and surveillance methods for brucellosis in cattle and small ruminants in communal and commercial cattle in KwaZulu Natal
• Prevalence and risk factors of bovine tuberculosis in livestock and humans in Eritrea
• Mycobacterium bovis at the wildlife/livestock interface in northern Botswana
• Prevalence of bovine tuberculosis in African buffalo in the Chobe National Park, Botswana
• Patterns of longitudinal M. bovis shedding in cow’s milk
• Changes to the provision of bovine tuberculosis testing in England and the effects on veterinarians and farmers
• Human Health Risk Factors of Informal Slaughter, focussing on Brucella abortus, in small scale farmers of Gauteng

Immunopathogenesis

• Immunopathogenesis and diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis in cattle and buffalo

Improved diagnostic developments

• Investigations in improving Brucella culture, serology and molecular assays in South Africa
• Immunodiagnosis of tuberculosis in domesticated African Elephant (b/) in the Victoria Falls and Livingstone area
• Infectious causes of abortion

Vaccine approaches for improved disease control

• Host immune response profiles of calves vaccinated with live and inactivated M. bovis vaccines