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ARC-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Overview, Ticks, Helminths, Insect Vectors
Natural Science Collection Facility Launch 18 October 2017 - Alpine Heath, Drakensberg
Deon K. Bakkes
Senior Manager Research: Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
Dr. Misheck Mulumba
Facility Manager
Financial Manager
Project Coordinator
Quality Coordinator
Public Relations Officer
PRO Assistant
Research Team Manager: Public Health &
Zoonoses
Research Team Manager: Vaccines & Diagnostics
Development
Research Team Manager: Epidemiology , Parasites &
Vectors
Research Team Manager: Diagnostic Services
Research Team Manager:
FMD Vaccine Production
Office Manager
Human Resources Manager
Occupational Health & Safety
Business Development Coordinator
Administrative Officer
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Research Team Manager: EPV
Dr. Sikhumbuzo Mbizeni
Line Manager: Parasitic Helminths Dr. Kerstin Junker
Line Manager: Tick Biology, Taxonomy & Ecology
Dr. Ben Mans
Line Manager: Ecology & Control of Insect Vectors
Dr. Gert Venter
Helminth Collection Curator Dr. Kerstin Junker
Tick Collection Curator Ms. Heloise Heyne Mr. Deon Bakkes
Insect Collection Curator Dr. Karien Labuschagne
EPIDEMIOLOGY, PARASITES & VECTORS
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Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum
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Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum Insect Vectors of Animal Disease
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Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum Insect Vectors of Animal Disease
National Collection of Animal Helminths
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Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum Insect Vectors of Animal Disease
National Collection of Animal Helminths
Old data, new methods, better knowledge.
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Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum Insect Vectors of Animal Disease
National Collection of Animal Helminths
Old data, new methods, better knowledge.
Exploited for taxonomic, ecological and biogeographical research as well as diagnostics.
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Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum Insect Vectors of Animal Disease
National Collection of Animal Helminths
Old data, new methods, better knowledge.
Exploited for taxonomic, ecological and biogeographical research as well as diagnostics.
Priceless intellectual property (IP) value and serves as a vital asset in subject specific training.
Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum
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Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum
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Ms. Heloise Heyne Mr. Deon Bakkes
Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum
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Ms. Heloise Heyne Mr. Deon Bakkes
c. 3000 tick collections, comprising 375 species from
19 genera of all three Ixodida families.
Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum
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Ms. Heloise Heyne Mr. Deon Bakkes
c. 3000 tick collections, comprising 375 species from
19 genera of all three Ixodida families.
Extensive and strategic African collection
Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum
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Ms. Heloise Heyne
Mr. Deon Bakkes
c. 3000 tick collections, comprising 375 species from
19 genera of all three Ixodida families.
Extensive and strategic African collection
54 type specimens of African tick species
Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum
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Ms. Heloise Heyne
Mr. Deon Bakkes
c. 3000 tick collections, comprising 375 species from
19 genera of all three Ixodida families.
Extensive and strategic African collection
54 type specimens of African tick species
DNA voucher collection (100 species)
collaboration with Stellenbosch University
Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum
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Ms. Heloise Heyne
Mr. Deon Bakkes
Insect Vectors of Animal Disease
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Insect Vectors of Animal Disease
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Dr. Karien Labuschagne
Insect Vectors of Animal Disease Slide collection:
• Siphonaptera (fleas) and Phthiraptera (lice): 3 000
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Dr. Karien Labuschagne
Insect Vectors of Animal Disease Slide collection:
• Siphonaptera (fleas) and Phthiraptera (lice): 3 000
• Culicoides (African Horse Sickness)
– 12 000
– 210 Culicoides species (Afrotropical: 132, World: 78)
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Dr. Karien Labuschagne
Insect Vectors of Animal Disease
Pinned:
• 3 Cabinets (general arthropods)
Slide collection:
• Siphonaptera (fleas) and Phthiraptera (lice): 3 000
• Culicoides (African Horse Sickness)
– 12 000
– 210 Culicoides species (Afrotropical: 132, World: 78)
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Dr. Karien Labuschagne
Insect Vectors of Animal Disease
Pinned:
• 3 Cabinets (general arthropods)
Alcohol (light trap samples):
• Culicoides: >18 000
• Simulium: 800, 16 species
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Dr. Karien Labuschagne
Slide collection:
• Siphonaptera (fleas) and Phthiraptera (lice): 3 000
• Culicoides (African Horse Sickness)
– 12 000
– 210 Culicoides species (Afrotropical: 132, World: 78)
National Collection of Animal Helminths
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Dr. Kerstin Junker
National Collection of Animal Helminths
Type collection: c. 246 species
Overseas collection: c. 584 accessions
Secondary collection: c. 2529 accessions
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Dr. Kerstin Junker
National Collection of Animal Helminths
Type collection: c. 246 species
Overseas collection: c. 584 accessions
Secondary collection: c. 2529 accessions
• Extensive reference collection of parasitic helminths
• Cestoda (Tapeworms)
• Trematoda (Flukes)
• Nematoda (Roundworms)
• Pentastomida (Tongue worms)
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Dr. Kerstin Junker
National Collection of Animal Helminths
Type collection: c. 246 species
Overseas collection: c. 584 accessions
Secondary collection: c. 2529 accessions
• Extensive reference collection of parasitic helminths
• Cestoda (Tapeworms)
• Trematoda (Flukes)
• Nematoda (Roundworms)
• Pentastomida (Tongue worms)
• Testimony to helminth diversity in South Africa
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Dr. Kerstin Junker
National Collection of Animal Helminths
Type collection: c. 246 species
Overseas collection: c. 584 accessions
Secondary collection: c. 2529 accessions
• Extensive reference collection of parasitic helminths
• Cestoda (Tapeworms)
• Trematoda (Flukes)
• Nematoda (Roundworms)
• Pentastomida (Tongue worms)
• Testimony to helminth diversity in South Africa
• Provides the basis for taxonomic comparisons and for large scale systematic studies
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Dr. Kerstin Junker
National Collection of Animal Helminths
Type collection: c. 246 species
Overseas collection: c. 584 accessions
Secondary collection: c. 2529 accessions
• Extensive reference collection of parasitic helminths
• Cestoda (Tapeworms)
• Trematoda (Flukes)
• Nematoda (Roundworms)
• Pentastomida (Tongue worms)
• Testimony to helminth diversity in South Africa
• Provides the basis for taxonomic comparisons and for large scale systematic studies
• Diagnostic service rendering to the veterinary community
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Dr. Kerstin Junker
Challenges & Risks
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Challenges & Risks
– Risk of drying out
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Challenges & Risks
– Risk of drying out
– Alcohol evaporation health risk
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Challenges & Risks
– Risk of drying out
– Alcohol evaporation health risk
– Fire risk (no protection system)
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Challenges & Risks
– Risk of drying out
– Alcohol evaporation health risk
– Fire risk (no protection system)
– Loss of samples (security alarms disconnected)
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Challenges & Risks
– Risk of drying out
– Alcohol evaporation health risk
– Fire risk (no protection system)
– Loss of samples (security alarms disconnected)
– Lack of personnel
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Challenges & Risks
– Risk of drying out
– Alcohol evaporation health risk
– Fire risk (no protection system)
– Loss of samples (security alarms disconnected)
– Lack of personnel
– Database development
ARC-OVR COLLECTIONS
Challenges & Risks
– Risk of drying out
– Alcohol evaporation health risk
– Fire risk (no protection system)
– Loss of samples (security alarms disconnected)
– Lack of personnel
– Database development
– Lack of records in some cases
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Challenges & Risks
– Risk of drying out
– Alcohol evaporation health risk
– Fire risk (no protection system)
– Loss of samples (security alarms disconnected)
– Lack of personnel
– Database development
– Lack of records in some cases
– Procurement delays
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Challenges & Risks
– Risk of drying out
– Alcohol evaporation health risk
– Fire risk (no protection system)
– Loss of samples (security alarms disconnected)
– Lack of personnel
– Database development
– Lack of records in some cases
– Procurement delays
– Lack of expertise
ARC-OVR COLLECTIONS
Challenges & Risks
– Risk of drying out
– Alcohol evaporation health risk
– Fire risk (no protection system)
– Loss of samples (security alarms disconnected)
– Lack of personnel
– Database development
– Lack of records in some cases
– Procurement delays
– Lack of expertise
– Classical skillset appears unattractive to students
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Challenges & Risks
– Risk of drying out
– Alcohol evaporation health risk
– Fire risk (no protection system)
– Loss of samples (security alarms disconnected)
– Lack of personnel
– Database development
– Lack of records in some cases
– Procurement delays
– Lack of expertise
– Classical skillset appears unattractive to students
– Older samples backlog
• re-labeling
• re-identification
• re-organising
• storage inadequate
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Challenges & Risks
– Risk of drying out
– Alcohol evaporation health risk
– Fire risk (no protection system)
– Loss of samples (security alarms disconnected)
– Lack of personnel
– Database development
– Lack of records in some cases
– Procurement delays
– Lack of expertise
– Classical skillset appears unattractive to students
– Older samples backlog
• re-labeling
• re-identification
• re-organising
• storage inadequate
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Yet we persist…
Current scientific projects
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Current scientific projects Insect Vectors of Animal Disease • National Assets: Surveys, Monitoring (KQS, Paarl, KZN),
• International collaboration: Reunion, Botswana, Namibia
• Climate Change: Eastern Cape
• Completed PhD: The Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
species of South Africa
• Species descriptions: Culicoides truuskae – Proposals submitted: Rothmansted trap, LEAP-Agri
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Current scientific projects Insect Vectors of Animal Disease • National Assets: Surveys, Monitoring (KQS, Paarl, KZN),
• International collaboration: Reunion, Botswana, Namibia
• Climate Change: Eastern Cape
• Completed PhD: The Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
species of South Africa
• Species descriptions: Culicoides truuskae – Proposals submitted: Rothmansted trap, LEAP-Agri
Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum • Book on Ixodid tick species of southern Africa (with UP)
• Afrotropical Ornithodoros and Ix. pilosus revision - eight new species
• Rhipicephalus evolution and shape ontogeny (Bakkes PhD, SUN)
• Tick surveys (NWU, Wageningen University, UL)
• Rickettsia in ticks screening (NICD)
• Tick identification services & training
• Expanding collection
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Current scientific projects Insect Vectors of Animal Disease • National Assets: Surveys, Monitoring (KQS, Paarl, KZN),
• International collaboration: Reunion, Botswana, Namibia
• Climate Change: Eastern Cape
• Completed PhD: The Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
species of South Africa
• Species descriptions: Culicoides truuskae – Proposals submitted: Rothmansted trap, LEAP-Agri
Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum • Book on Ixodid tick species of southern Africa (with UP)
• Afrotropical Ornithodoros and Ix. pilosus revision - eight new species
• Rhipicephalus evolution and shape ontogeny (Bakkes PhD, SUN)
• Tick surveys (NWU, Wageningen University, UL)
• Rickettsia in ticks screening (NICD)
• Tick identification services & training
• Expanding collection
National Collection of Animal Helminths • Diversity and patterns of helminths in small mammals
• Pentastomids and gastrointestinal helminths in Nile Crocodiles
• Helminth diversity in warthogs, host sex-age influence on infection
• Taxonomy of the gastric nematode genus Cylicospiura in carnivores
• Expanding collection
• Sampling for future molecular work
• Student training
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