This report, covering the two year period 1997 to 1998, is an update of previous reports published in the Proceedings of SEARG meetings which took place in Zambia, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya. The overall rabies situation in South Africa has changed very little and the disease remains endemic throughout the country. Four major vectors have been identified, namely the domestic dog, the yell...

Using an object decision task, event-related potentials (ERPs), and minimum norm current source estimates, we investigated early spatiotemporal aspects of cortical activation elicited by line drawings that were manipulated on two dimensions: authenticity and typicality. Authentic objects were those that match real-world experience, whereas nonauthentic objects were "doctored" by deletion or add...

BACKGROUND The present study was carried out to describe the epidemiological aspects of gastrointestinal helminthic infections of canids in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, the central western part of Iran. METHODS Forty nine canid species including, dogs, jackals, foxes and wolves were included in this study. The contents of their alimentary canal were inspected in order to isolate and id...

Anthrax has been studied intensively in Etosha National Park, Namibia since 1966; in addition, since 1975, mortality due to rabies and all other causes has been recorded, totalling 6,190 deaths. Standard diagnostic procedures demonstrated that at least 811 deaths (13%) were due to anthrax and 115 deaths (2%) were caused by rabies. Of the total number of deaths due to anthrax, 97% occurred in ze...

Nucleic acid sequence analysis was used to determine the phylogenetic relationships amongst rabies viruses isolated from typical canid hosts such as bat-eared fox, jackal and dog in South Africa (SA). Geographical factors were taken into account in the selection of isolates and three different regions within the genomes of the isolates were compared for their use as phylogenetic indicators. The...

We propose GA-Nav, a novel group-wise attention mechanism to identify safe and navigable regions in unstructured environments from RGB images. Our method extracts multi-scale features each type of terrain independently classifies terrains based on their navigability levels using coarse-grained semantic segmentation. loss can be embedded within any backbone network explicitly focus the different...

Abstract In the present study, 64 golden jackals were examined for intestinal helminths in three regions of Vojvodina, Serbia. Among 57.8% infected with at least one parasite species. Using scraping technique (SCT), eight species found: Alaria alata (7.8%), Toxascaris leonina (9.4%), Toxocara canis (4.7%) , Uncinaria stenocephala (20.3%), Echinococcus multilocularis (14.1%), Mesocestoides sp. (...