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Diseases in free-ranging black and white rhinoceroses |
| Author(s): |
Meltzer, D.A.G. |
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1994 |
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pp. 176-179 |
| Reference From: | Penzhorn, B.L. et al. 1994 Proceedings of a symposium on rhinos as game ranch animals. Onderstepoort, Republic of South Africa, 9-10 September 1994, pp. i-iv, 1-242 |
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Diseases - Bacterial
African Rhino Species
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| The death of a black rhinoceros due to babesiosis has been reported. This was later questioned by Brocklesby who reported seeing Babesia parasites in blood smears from sick rhinoceroses but suggested that the presence of piroplasms did not necessarily indicate that they were pathogenic. Both a ... |
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Diseases - External causes
White Rhino
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| Suspected algal toxicity. Three of four white rhinoceroses died within two months of being translocated from the Umfolozi Game Reserve to the Barakologadi Game Reserve, which is situated on the banks of the Klipvoor Dam (26?57'E, 25?5'S). Two of these animals were found after being dead for som... |
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Diseases
Black Rhino
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| Death due to salmonellosis has been reported in a black rhinoceros bull six days after capture. Salmonella typhimurium was isolated from the liver. The animal was noticed to be behaving strangely four days after it had been captured. Two days later it was down in its pen and died that day. Pos... |
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| Bacterial infections identified in newly-captured black rhinoceroses include Group L Streptococcus and Staphylococcus aureus both of which were isolated from animals that had died as a result of septicaemia. The most effective antibiotics for routine use in black rhinoceroses were identified as ... |
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Diseases in free-ranging black and white rhinoceroses
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