Day 2 of the Virtual 49th Annual PARSA Conference.
Agenda
08h00 - Platform Introduction
08h05 - Molecular characterization of the economically important South African Rhipicephalus tick species of domestic animals and their bacterial communities (Asiashu Matshotshi)
08h15 - Clinico-haematological and biochemical features of natural babesiosis in Nigerian breeds of cattle (Sunday Olaogun)
08h25 - Temporal dynamics of Anaplasma marginale infection in calves at the wildlife-livestock interface in the Mnisi communal area, Mpumalanga, South Africa (Marcus Makgabo)
08h50 - Prevalence of gastrointestinal parasites in small ruminants from selected farms in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, Nigeria (Muideen Adebayo)
09h00 - Development of resistance to acaricides by field tick populations on cattle: A global systematic review and meta-analysis (William Dzemo)
09h10 - A descriptive study of parasites detected in ticks of domestic animals in Lesotho ( Sibonginhlanhla Mahlobo)
09h50 - Adult nematode parasites of Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) from Lake Heritage in the Crocodile River, South Africa using light and scanning electron microscopy (Ashlee Nofal)
10h00 - Spinitectus petterae Boomker, 1993 infecting Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) from the Vaal River system: a scanning electron and light microscopical study of aspects of the pathology (Lucinda Austin)
10h10 - The metazoan parasite community of invasive Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) in South Africa: Testing the co-invasive, spillback and enemy release hypotheses (Marliese Truter)
10h20 - Question & Answer session (Anja Vermaak)
10h35 - Somewhere I belong: Using phylogenetic comparative methods and machine learning to investigate the evolution of a species-rich lineage of parasites ( Armando Cruz-Laufer)
10h45 - A planned taxonomical study and a twenty-year period, statistical overview of Sessilida Kahl, 1933 (Oligohymenophorea: Peritrichia) found on chiton species along the South African coastline (Andri Grobbelaar)
10h55 - Taxonomic re-evaluation of African anuran trypanosomes with the redescription and molecular diagnosis of Trypanosoma nelspruitense Laveran, 1904 (Bernard Jordaan)
11h05 - Question & Answer session (Anja Vermaak)
11h20 - Poster Presentations Speed Session 2
11h35 - Lunch
12h00 - Assessment of in vitro anti-trypanosomal activity of nitrofurantoin derivatives against sleeping sickness trypanosomes (Anna Seetsi)
12h10 - The mosquitocidal and toxicological properties of novel pyrimidine-phenyl-hybrid derivatives (Jabu Mahlangu)
12h20 - Identification of sesquiterpene alcohols with larvicidal and anticholinesterase effects on Anopheles funestus (Thankhoe Rants'o)
12h30 - Question & Answer session
12h45 - Discordant drivers of parasitism from the micro-habitat to global scale in a frog host (Anneke Schoeman)
12h55 - Invasive snails, parasite spillback and potential parasite spillover drive parasitic diseases of Hippopotamus amphibius in artificial lakes of Zimbabwe (Ruben Schols)
13h05 - ParasiteDB – the instrument for shared managing of parasitological collections (Yaroslav Syrota)