A5025121848- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Livestock and Poultry Management
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Malaria Research and Control
- Coccidia and coccidiosis research
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Helminth infection and control
- Microbial infections and disease research
- Livestock Farming and Management
- Transgenic Plants and Applications
- Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
- Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
- Gut microbiota and health
- Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
- Livestock Management and Performance Improvement
- Animal Virus Infections Studies
- Animal Genetics and Reproduction
- Parasites and Host Interactions
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
University of KwaZulu-Natal
2018-2025
University of Zululand
2023
North-West University
2022
Federal University of Agriculture
2010-2021
Agricultural Research Council of South Africa
2021
Animal Production Institute
2021
Berry College
2019
Rivers State University
2008
Enterococcus species have developed from being commensal bacteria to leading pathogens that cause infections in humans and animals. The gastrointestinal tract of mammals is the normal habitat these species. Virulence factors are proteins produced by bacterium which used enhance their pathogenicity. objectives this study were isolate spp. livestock companion animals, differentiate between different sub-species detect presence important virulence genes. Rectal saliva swabs collected dogs cats,...
Plasmodium falciparum is the most fatal species of malaria parasites in humans. Attempts at developing vaccines against have not been very successful even after approval RTS, S/AS01 vaccine. There a continuous need for more effective including sexual-stage antigens that could block transmission between mosquitoes and Low immunogenicity, expression, stability are some challenges transmission-blocking vaccine (TBV). This study was designed to computationally identify TBV candidates based on...
Supplementation of direct-fed microbials into ruminants' nutrition has shown great potential in manipulating rumen fermentation and enhancing productive animal performance. However, little is known about microbial composition diversity Damara Meatmaster sheep, breeds indigenous to South Africa. The study aimed at exploring comparing the microbiomes two with different feeding treatments as follows: no antibiotic, probiotics (T1), only probiotic (T2), (T3), combination (T4), antibiotic (T5);...
Mycoplasma genitalium infection is a sexually transmitted that causes urethritis, cervicitis, and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in men women. The global rise antimicrobial resistance against recommended antibiotics for the treatment of M. has triggered need to explore novel drug targets this pathogen. application bioinformatics approach through subtractive genomics proven highly instrumental predicting therapeutic This study aimed identify essential non-homologous proteins with unique...
Human identification of unknown samples following disaster and mass casualty events is essential, especially to bring closure family friends the deceased. Unfortunately, victim often challenging for forensic investigators as analysis becomes complicated when biological are degraded or poor quality a result exposure harsh environmental factors. Mitochondrial DNA ideal option analysis, particularly determining origin samples. In such events, estimation genetic parameters plays an important...
Lactic acid bacteria are increasingly becoming important dietary supplements due to their health benefits when consumed in adequate quantity. The increasing attention on these microbes has necessitated an in-depth understanding of physiological processes, such as nutritional requirements and growth patterns, better harness probiotic potentials. This study was carried out determine the for L. salivarius ZJ614 reuteri ZJ625 from a chemically defined medium evaluate kinetics by fitting...
Chicken anemia virus (CAV) causes severe clinical and sub-clinical infection in poultry globally thus leads to economic losses. The drawbacks of the commercially available vaccines against CAV disease signal need for a novel, safe, effective vaccine design. In this study, multiepitope (MEV) consisting T-cell B-cell epitopes from viral proteins (VP1 VP2) was computationally constructed with help linkers adjuvant. 3D model MEV construct refined validated by different online bioinformatics...
Several molecular marker systems have been developed for assessing genetic diversity in crop germplasm collections. A trade-off often exists between the number of loci that can feasibly be sampled by a system and amount information provided each locus. We compared usefulness two revealing population structure cassava ( Manihot esculenta Crantz): simple sequence repeats (SSRs) array technology (DArT) markers. DArTs survey many more per reaction than do SSRs; however, as bi-allelic, dominant...
Genetic variants at heat shock protein 70 gene and their influence on stress (HS) tolerance were studied among selected Nigeria zebu, namely, 25 White Fulani (WF), 21 Sokoto Gudali (SG), Red Bororo (RB), 23 Ambala (AM). Detection of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) followed by determination genotype genotypic frequency was made the breeds. The coefficient (HTC) determined from thermo-related parameters including body temperature, rectal respiratory rate. Thermo-Tolerance evaluated...