OIE Collaborating Centre Reports
Activities in 2013
Title of Collaborating Centre:
Address of Collaborating Centre:
Surveillance and Control of Animal
Diseases in Africa
ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute
Private Bag X05
Onderstepoort 0110
South Africa
Tel.:
+27-12-529 9106
Fax:
+27-12-565 4667
e-mail address:
WillmotJ@arc.agric.za
website:
http://www.arc.agric.za
Name of Director of Institute
(Responsible Official):
Prof AJ Musoke (Jan-Sep)
Dr L Heath (acting Oct-Dec)
Name (including Title and
Position) of Head of the
Collaborating Centre (formally
OIE Contact Point):
Dr BM Modisane
DAFF:Chief Director
Name (including Title and
Position) of writer of this report
(if different from above)
Ms D Wessels
Quality Manager
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Surveillance and Control of Animal Diseases in Africa
Summary of activities specifically related to the mandate of
OIE Collaborating Centres
ToR:
To provide services to the OIE, in particular within the region, in the designated
specialty, in support of the implementation of OIE policies and, where required, seek for
collaboration with OIE Reference Laboratories
ToR:
To identify and maintain existing expertise, in particular within its region
1.
Activities as a centre of research, expertise, standardisation and dissemination of
techniques within the remit of the mandate given by the OIE
Disease control
Epidemiology, surveillance, risk assessment, modelling
Training, capacity building
Zoonoses
Wildlife
Avian diseases
Aquatic animal diseases
Animal welfare
Diagnosis, biotechnology and laboratory
Veterinary medicinal products
Vaccines
Food safety
Feed safety
Other (Name the category: )
DIAGNOSIS, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND LABORATORY
Title of activity
Scope
Food, Feed Veterinary Public
Health related diagnositics
Bacterial diseases, Rabies and BSE
Transboundary Animal Diseases
related diagnostics
FMD, ASF, PRRS, PPR
Molecular Diagnostics and
Epidemiology related
Viral diseases, Aquatic and Avian diseases, Molecular confirmation
OTHER ACTIVITY 1
2
Title of activity
Scope
Food, Feed Veterinary Public
Health related diagnostics
Toxicology and Animal Residue analysis
Parasites, Vector and Vectorborne diseases
Parasitology and Helmintology
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ToR:
To propose or develop methods and procedures that facilitate harmonisation of
international standards and guidelines applicable to the designated specialty
2.
Proposal or development of any procedure that will facilitate harmonisation of
international regulations applicable to the surveillance and control of animal diseases,
food safety or animal welfare
Proposal title
Scope/Content
Applicable area
SADC TADS
buffalo and cattle
sampling project
To characterise FMD virus from
buffalo and cattle located at the
wildlife/livestock interface of
national parks
Surveillance and control of animal diseases
Ring trail for dog
serum titre
assessment on
Ring trail for dog serum titre
assessment on behalf of the OIE
Biological Standards Commission to
standardise the OIE positive serum
Surveillance and control of animal diseases
Food safety
Animal welfare
Food safety
Animal welfare
ToR:
To establish and maintain a network with other OIE Collaborating Centres designated
for the same specialty, and should the need arise, with Collaborating Centres in other
disciplines
ToR:
To carry out and/or coordinate scientific and technical studies in collaboration with
other centres, laboratories or organisations
3.
Did your Collaborating Centre maintain a network with other OIE Collaborating Centres
(CC), Reference Laboratories (RL), or organisations designated for the same specialty, to
coordinate scientific and technical studies?
Yes
Name of OIE CC/RL/other
organisation(s)
Canadian International Food
Security Research
Fund,University of
Alberta,VIDO,NCFAD
4.
No
Location
Region of
networking Centre
ARC-OVI
Africa
Americas
Asia and Pacific
Europe
Middle East
Purpose
Development of a LSD-RVF PPR vaccine
construct
Did your Collaborating Centre maintain a network with other OIE Collaborating Centres,
Reference laboratories, or organisations in other disciplines, to coordinate scientific and
technical studies?
Yes
No
Name of OIE CC/RL/other
organisation(s)
Location
GARA network
International
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Region of
networking
Centre
Africa
Americas
Asia and Pacific
Europe
Middle East
Purpose
Global ASF Research Alliance -201314 chaired by Dr Livio Heath
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Name of OIE CC/RL/other
organisation(s)
Location
GFRA
International
Region of
networking
Centre
Purpose
Africa
Americas
Asia and Pacific
Europe
Middle East
Global FMD Research Alliance chaired by Dr Francois Maree
ToR:
To place expert consultants at the disposal of the OIE.
5.
Did your Collaborating Centre place expert consultants at the disposal of the OIE?
Yes
No
Name of expert
Kind of consultancy
Subject
Dr Rahana Dwarka
Establishment of serological LPBE assay to
detect FMD
Member of working group
Dr Claude Sabeta
Standarisation of titre of positive dog
serum
Member of working group
Dr Claude Sabeta
Muscat (Oman) between 16-19 March
2013. The visit was facilitated by Dr Yehi
Ghazi, the OIE Representative for the
Middle East.
Pre-twinning visit
ToR:
To provide, within the designated specialty, scientific and technical training to personnel
from OIE Member Countries
6.
Did your Collaborating Centre provide scientific and technical training, within the remit of
the mandate given by the OIE, to personnel from OIE Member Countries?
Yes
No
If the answer is yes, please provide the total number of trained persons for each of the following
categories:
a)
Technical visits: ................................................................ 1
b)
Seminars: ......................................................................... 0
c)
Hands-on training courses: .............................................. 49
d)
Internships (>1 month): ................................................... 3
Type of technical
training provided
(a, b, c or d)
c
4
Content
Country of origin of the
expert(s) provided with
training
No. participants from
the corresponding
country
A training course on African swine
fever (ASF), Rift Valley fever (RVF),
peste des petits ruminants (PPR)
and lumpy skin disease (LSD)
prevention, recognition and control
Korea, Lesotho,
Mozambique,
Zimbabwe, Tanzania,
Zambia, Mauritius,
Malawi and Namibia
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Type of technical
training provided
(a, b, c or d)
Content
Country of origin of the
expert(s) provided with
training
No. participants from
the corresponding
country
c
PCR training for rabies diagnosis
Nigeria
9
a
Fluorescent antibody test for rabies
and antigenic typing in-house
Lesotho
1
c
Training on Liquid phase blocking
ELISA for detection of FMD.
Namibia
5
d
Analysis of FMD samples collected
as part of the SADC project on
buffalo and cattle sampli
Tanzania and Zambia
2
c
RVF diagnostic training to
technicians
Tanzania. Mozamboque,
Madagascar, DRC,
Eritrea, Malawi, Zambia,
Botswana, Zimbabwe,
Mauritius
20
c
Training on RVF challenge work at
TADs (linked to USDA-ARS project)
Kenya
2
ToR:
To organise and participate in scientific meetings and other activities on behalf of the
OIE
7.
Did your Collaborating Centre organise or participate in the organisation of scientific
meetings on behalf of the OIE?
Yes
National/
International
International
No
Title of event
Co-organiser
Date
(mm/yy)
Location
No.
Participants
OIE Annual General
Session
OIE
May 2013
Paris
2
OIE Member
Countries
involved
Title of study
Purpose of study
Partners (institutions)
Culicoides surveys
Seasonal abundance of Culicoides
species in Botswana and Namibia
University of Pretoria and
University of North West,
South Africa
Botswana;
Namibia
Culicoides survey
Evaluation of stables in Mauritius
for the abundance of Culicoides
midges
Ministry of Argo-Industry,
Food Security; Division of
Veterinary Services - Reduit,
Animal Health Laboratory,
Republic of Mauritius.
Mauritius
Culicoides
identification
Identification of problematic
African Culicoides species
collected in Senegal
CIRAD
France
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Title of study
Purpose of study
Partners (institutions)
OIE Member
Countries
involved
Culicoides collection
and artificial
feeding
Collection and artificial feeding of
field collected Culicoides species
with the aim of establishing a
colony
CODA - CERVA
Belgium
Light traps
Supply and selling of the
Onderstepoort light trap and
netting as needed.
CODA - CERVA
Belgium
ToR:
To collect, process, analyse, publish and disseminate data and information relevant to
the designated specialty
8.
Publication and dissemination of any information within the remit of the mandate given by
the OIE that may be useful to Member Countries of the OIE
(Indicate in the appropriate box the number by category)
a)
Articles published in peer-reviewed journals: ................. 19
KUZMIN Y., JUNKER K., DU PREEZ L. & BAIN O., 2013. A new species of Rhabdias Stiles et Hassal, 1905
(Nematoda: Rhabdiasidae) from Blommersia domerguei (Guibe) (Amphibia: Mantellidae) in Madagascar. Folia
Parasitologica 60(5): 469-474.
BOSHRA H., TRUONG T., NFON C., GERDTS V., TIKOO S., BABIUK L.A., KARA P.D., MATHER A.S., WALLACE D.B.
& BABIUK S., 2013. Capripoxvirus-vectored vaccines against livestock diseases in Africa. antiviral research 98:
217.
BOSHRA H., TRUONG T., NFON C., GERDTS V., TIKOO S., BABIUK L.A., KARA P.D., MATHER A.S., WALLACE D.B.
& BABIUK S., 2013. Capripoxvirus-vectored vaccines against livestock diseases in Africa. antiviral research 98:
217-227.
MARUFU M.C., CHIMONYO M., MANS B.J. & DZAMA K., 2013. Cutaneous hypersensitivity responses to
Rhipicephalus tick larval antigens in pre-sensitized cattle. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 4: 311-316.
WILSON W.C., ROMITO M., JASPERSON D.C., WEINGARTL H., BINEPAL Y.S., MALULEKE M.R., WALLACE D.B.,
VAN VUREN P.J. & PAWESKA J.T., 2013. Development of a Rift Valley fever real-time RT-PCR assay that can
detect all three genomic segments. Journal of Virological Methods 192: 426-431.
KGALADI J., WRIGHT N., COERTSE J., MARKOTTER W., MARSTON D., FOOKS A.R., FREULING C., MULLER T.,
SABETA C., & NEL L.H., 2013. Diversity and Epidemiology of Mokola Virus. Plos Neglected Tropcial Diseases 7
(10): e2511.
SABETA C., WEYER J., PETER GEERTSMA P., MOHALE D.K., MIYEN M.J., , BLUMBERG L., LEMAN P.,
PHAHLADIRA M.N.B., SHUMBA W., WALTERS J. & PAWESKA J.T., 2013. Emergence of rabies in the Gauteng
Province, South Africa: 2010–2011. Journal of the South African Veterinary Assosiation 84 (1): doi: 10.4102/.
HLOKWE M.T., VAN HELDEN P. & MICHEL A., 2013. Evaluation of the discriminary power of variable number of
tandem repeat typing of Mycobacterium bovis isolates from Southern Africa. Transboundary and Emerging
Diseases 60 (Suppl. 1): 111-120.
MBIZENI S., POTGIETER F.T., TROSKIE P.C., MANS B.J., PENZHORN B.L. & A.A. LATIF A.A., 2013. Field and
laboratory studies on Corridor disease (Theileria parva infection) in cattle population at the livestock/game
interface of uPhongolo-Mkuze area, South Africa.. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 4: 227-234.
APANSKEVICH D.A., WALKER J.B., HEYNE I.H., BEZUIDENHOUT J.D. & HORAK I.G., 2013. First description of the
immature stages and redescription of the adults of Cosmiomma hippopotamensis (Acari: Ixodidae) with notes
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on its bionomics. Journal of Medical Entomology 50(4): 709-722.
COMBRINK M.P., TROSKIE P.C., PIENAAR R., A.A. LATIF A.A. & MANS B.J., 2014. Genotypic diversity in Babesia
bovis field isolates and vaccine strains from South Africa. Veterinary Parisitology 199: 144-152.
GIESEN S.C., TAKEMOTO R.M., CALITZ F.J., DE LOS ANGELES PEREZ LIZA M. & JUNKER K., 2013. Infective
pentastomid larvae from Pygocentrus nattereri Kner (Pisces, Characidae) from the Miranda River, Pantanal,
Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil, with notes on their taxonomy and epidemiology. Folia Parasitologica 60 (5):
457-468.
TAGELDIN M.H., WALLACE D.B., GERDES G.H., PUTTERILL J.F., GREYLING R.R., PHOSIWA M.N., AL BUSAIDY
R.M. & AL ISMAAILY S.I., 2013. Lumpy skin disease of cattle: an emerging problem in the Sultanate of Oman.
Transboundary and Emerging Diseases online: 1-6.
KLUITERS G., SUGDEN D., GUIS H., LABUSCHAGNE K., VILAR M.J., MCINTYRE K.M. & BAYLIS M., 2013.
Modelling the spatial distribution of Culicoides biting midges at the local scale.. Journal of Applied Ecology 50:
232-242.
MICHEL A., HLOKWE M.T., & VAN HELDEN P., 2013. Mycobacterium tuberculosis at the human/wildlife
interface in a high burden country. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases 60 (suppl.1): 46-52.
NJIRO S. .M. & TSOTETSI A.M., 2013. Prevalence of gastrointestinal helminths and anthelmintic. Tropical
Animal Health and Production 45: 751-761.
WATERMEYER R., PUTTERILL J.F., BOOMKER J., KUZMIN Y. & JUNKER K., 2013. Redescription of Setaria graberi
Shoho in Troncy, Graber & Thal, 1976 (Nematoda: Filarioidea) based on specimens from Redunca arundinum
(Bovidae) in South Africa. Parasite 20, 43: 1-8.
BOTHA C.J., COETSER H., SCHULTZ R.A., LABUSCHAGNE L. & VAN DER MERWE D., 2013. Spatial variation of
epoxyscillirosidine concentrations in Moraea pallida (yellow tulp) in South Africa. Onderstepoort Journal of
Veterinary Research 80(1): 6.
XU X., CHANG B.W., MANS B.J., RIBEIRO J.M.C. & ANDERSEN J.F., 2013. Structure and ligand-binding
properties of the biogenic amine-binding protein from the saliva of a blood-feeding insect vector of
Trypanosoma cruzi. Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography 69: 105-113.
b)
International conference presentations: ......................... 3
Dr Shumba presented a talk “Rabies situation and trends from South Africa for 2010-2012” and Dr
Sabeta presented “Results of the rabies proficiency test co-ordinated by the OIE rabies reference
Laboratory for the SADC member countries” at the South East African Rabies Group (SEARG) in Dar
Es Salaam, Tanzania from 11-16th February 2013.
Dr Sabeta presented a talk entitled “The epidemiology and pathogenicity of classical rabies virus
(RABV) in South Africa” at the 3rd World Congress of Virology that was held at the Double Tree by
Hilton Hotel in Baltimore (USA) from 20-22 November 2013
Mr Ngoepe presented a talk entitled “a review of the export test for rabies: the last 5 years” during a
rabies serology meeting organised by ANSES (France) on the 1st and 2nd October 2013 in Nancy
(France). South East African Rabies Group (SEARG) in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania from 11-16th
February 2013.
c)
National conference presentations: ................................ 3
Presented 3 papers at the 11th Annual Congress of the Southern African Society for Veterinary
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, held at the Salt Rock Resort, KZN Dolphin Coast,
KwaZulu/Natal from 14-16th August 2013.
Sabeta, C., Phahladira, B., Miyen, B., Mohale, D., Ngoepe, E and Shumba, W. Genetic Analysis of
Domestic and Wildlife Rabies from the North-West (2012) demonstrates a common rabies cycle”,
Ngoepe, E. & Sabeta, C. Evaluation of ELISA for detection of rabies specific antibodies in dogs: a
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preliminary study” and
Sabeta, C., Weyer, J., Geertsma, P., Mohale, D., Blumberg, L.H., Leman, P.A., Phahladira, B., Shumba,
W., Walters, J., Paweska, J. “Rabies in the Gauteng province: the current status” .
d)
Other: ............................................................................... 9
Articles reviewed:
Plurithematic issue of the OIE Scientific and Technical Review (1) - reviewed by Dr C Sabeta
Vaccine (2) - Articles reviewed by Dr C Sabeta
Epidemiology and Infection (2) - Articles reviewed by Dr C Sabeta
Journal of the South African Veterinary Association (1) - Article reviewed by Dr C Sabeta
Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research (1) - Article reviewed by Dr C Sabeta
Posters:
ASF, LSD (SPP and GTP), RVF and PPR: The first poster is called “Caring for Livestock”
(developed in March 2013), the second “Differences between Vaccination and Medication”
(June 2013) and a reusable year planner for vaccination, deworming etc schedules
(September 2013)
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