Heartwater is a notifiable disease that is listed by the World Organisation for Animal Health.
It is caused by Ehrlichia ruminantium, an obligately intracellular Gramnegative bacterium in …

Small ruminants are susceptible to several chlamydial and rickettsial infections. Some of
them, such as Ehrlichia ruminantium, have a great impact on the sheep and goat industry …

Ehrlichia ruminantium is an obligately intracellular proteobacterium which causes a disease
known as heartwater or cowdriosis in some wild, and all domestic, ruminants. The organism …

Overwhelming evidence has accumulated of the effectiveness of immunization with live
attenuated vaccines to control tick-borne diseases of livestock. Despite several …

Ehrlichioses are caused by obligately intracellular bacteria that are maintained subclinically
in a persistently infected vertebrate host and a tick vector. The most severe life-threatening …

The paper comprises an overview of important or unusual goat diseases occurring in
southern Africa, with the emphasis on current effective disease control measures and recent …

Heartwater is a tick-borne disease of ruminants caused by the intracellular rickettsia
Ehrlichia ruminantium. The only commercially available immunization procedure involves …

Heartwater is an economically serious tick-borne disease of ruminants caused by the
intracellular bacterium Ehrlichia ruminantium. The disease has traditionally been controlled …

Heartwater (cowdriosis) is a disease of ruminants caused by a rickettsial pathogen Ehrlichia
ruminantium and transmitted by ticks of the genus Amblyomma. The purpose of this work …

Heterologous prime/boost immunisation strategies using the Ehrlichia ruminantium 1H12
pCMViUBs_ORFs [Pretorius A, Collins NE, Steyn HC, Van Strijp F, Van Kleef M, Allsopp BA …