Further reading

Further reading about the group's work on vector borne diseases:

Popular press and websites:

https://onehealthstory.com/west-nile-virus/.

 

• Venter M, Myers TG, Wilson MA, Kindt TJ, Paweska JT, Burt FJ, Leman PA and Swanepoel R. Gene expression in mice infected with West Nile virus strains of different neurovirulence. Virology, 2005;342, 119-40.

 

• Botha EM, Markotter W, Wolfaardt M, Paweska JT, Swanepoel R, Palacios G, Nel LH and Venter M. Genetic determinants of virulence in pathogenic lineage 2 west Nile virus strains. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2008;14, 222-30.

 

• Venter M, Human S, Zaayman D, Gerdes GH, Williams J, Steyl J, Leman PA, Paweska JT, Setzkorn H, Rous G, Murray S, Parker R, Donnellan C and Swanepoel, R. Lineage 2 West Nile Virus as cause of fatal neurologic disease in horses, South Africa. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009;15, 877-84.

 

• Venter M; Burt FJ, Leman PA, Blumberg L, Fikl H, Paweska, J and Swanepoel R. Cytokine induction after laboratory-acquired West Nile virus infection. New England Journal of Medicine, 2009;360, 1260-2.

 

• Zaayman D, Human S, and Venter M. A highly sensitive method for the detection and genotyping of West Nile virus by Real-Time PCR. Journal of Virological Methods, 2009;157, 155-60.

 

• Venter M and Swanepoel R. Review: Pathogenesis of West Nile Virus lineage 2 as a cause of zoonotic neurological disease in humans and horses in Southern Africa. Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases; 2010;10, 659-64.

 

• Venter M, Steyl J, Wyers J, Blumberg L, Human S, Zaayman D, Swanepoel R. Transmission of West Nile virus during horse autopsy. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010;16, 573-5.

 

• Venter M, Human S, van Niekerk S, Williams J, van Eeden C and Freeman F. Fatal neurologic disease and abortion in mare infected with lineage 1 West Nile Virus, South Africa. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011;17, 1534-36.

 

• van Eeden C, Williams JH, Gerdes GH, van Wilpe E, Viljoen A, Swanepoel R, and Venter M. Shuni virus as a cause of neurological disease in horses. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012;18, 318-21.
• Lwande, O.W., Irura, Z., Tigoi, C., Chepkorir, E., Orindi, B., Musila, L., Venter, M,, Fischer, A., Sang, R. Seroprevalence of Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in Ijara District, Kenya. Vector-borne Zoonotic Diseases, 2012:12, 727-32.
•   Zaayman, D. and Venter, M. West Nile virus neurologic disease in humans, South Africa. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012:18, 2051-4.
•  Venter, M., van Vuren P.J., Mentoor, J., Paweska, J., Williams, J. Inactivated West Nile Virus (WNV) vaccine, Duvaxyn WNV, protects against a highly neuroinvasive lineage 2 WNV strain in mice. Vaccine, 2013 Jun 29.
• Lwande, O.W., Lutomiah, J., Obanda, V., Gakuya, F., Mutisya, J., Mulwa, F., Michuki, G., Chepkorir, E., Fischer, A., Venter, M., Sang, R. Isolation of tick and mosquito-borne arboviruses from ticks sampled from livestock and wild animal hosts in Ijara District, Kenya. Vector-borne Zoonotic Diseases, 2013 Jun 27.

 

• Van Eeden, C., Zaayman, D., Venter, M. A sensitive nested Real-Time RT-PCR for the detection of Shuni virus. Journal of Virological Methods, in press.

 

• Venter, M., Zaayman, D., van Niekerk, S., Stivaktas, V., Goolab, S., Weyer, J., Paweska, J.T., Swanepoel, R. (2013) Macroarray assay for differential diagnosis of meningoencephalitis in southern Africa.  Journal of Clinical Viorology, submitted.

 

• Pathology of fatal lineage 1 and 2 West Nile virus infections in horses in South Africa. Williams JH, van Niekerk S, Human S, van Wilpe E, Venter M. J S Afr Vet Assoc. 2014 Sep 1;85(1):1105. doi: 10.4102/jsava.v85i1.1105.

 

• van Eeden C, Harders F, Kortekaas J, Bossers A, Venter M. Genomic and phylogenetic characterization of Shuni virus. Arch Virol. 2014 Jun 24. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24957652. 

 

• Lwande O, Venter M, Lutomiah J, Michuki G, Rumberia C, Gakuya F, Obanda V, Tigoi C, Odhiambo C, Nindo F, Symekher S, Sang R. Whole genome phylogenetic investigation of a West Nile virus strain isolated from a tick sampled from livestock in north eastern Kenya. Parasit Vectors. 2014 Nov 28;7(1):542. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25430727.

 

• Ferreira, Cátia Alexandra Costa ; Mixão, Verónica de Pinho; Novo, Maria Teresa Lourenço Marques; Calado, Maria Manuela Palmeiro; Gonçalves, Luzia Augusta Pires; Belo, Silvana Maria Duarte; Almeida, António Paulo Gouveia de. 2015. First molecular identification of mosquito vectors of Dirofilaria immitis in continental Portugal. Parasites & Vectors.2015, 8:139. DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-0760-2. URL: http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/8/1/139

 

• Ferreira, Cátia Alexandra Costa ; Mixão, Verónica de Pinho; Novo, Maria Teresa Lourenço Marques; Calado, Maria Manuela Palmeiro; Gonçalves, Luzia Augusta Pires; Belo, Silvana Maria Duarte; Almeida, António Paulo Gouveia de. 2015. First molecular identification of mosquito vectors of Dirofilaria immitis in continental Portugal. Parasites & Vectors.2015, 8:139. DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-0760-2. URL: http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/8/1/139

 

• Stephanie van Niekerk, Stacey Human, June Williams, Erna van Wilpe, Robert Swanepoel, Marthi Pretorius and Marietjie Venter. Old World alphaviruses, Sindbis and Middelburg, in association with neurologic disease in horses in South Africa. Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 21, No. 12, December 2015