Lin-Mari De Klerk-Lorist

Lin-Mari de Klerk-Lorist

Lin-Mari De Klerk-Lorist

State veterinarian, Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development

Department of Agriculture, Land Reform & Rural Development, South Africa

Email: Lindsey.Moffat@roslin.ed.ac.uk

 

 

 

VALIDATE Role: VALIDATE Network Affiliate

 

Research keywords: Tuberculosis, mycobacteria, tropical diseases, parasites

 

Biography

Lin-Mari de Klerk-Lorist is currently employed as a state veterinarian (SV) with the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform, and Rural Development (DALRRD), stationed at the satellite office at Skukuza, Kruger National Park (KNP). She has been involved in various disease surveys of several animal species across the KNP landscape and continues to do abattoir surveillance at the KNP research abattoir. She is the chairperson of the Buffalo Advisory Committee (BAC), and she also serves as the OIE wildlife focal point of South Africa. She believes that wildlife disease surveillance, especially at the interface, is crucial from a One Health perspective.

 

 

Key publications

  • Higgitt RL; van Schalkwyk L; de Klerk-Lorist L; Buss PE, Caldwell P; Rossouw L; Manamela T, Hausler G; van Helden PD; Parsons SDC; Miller MA. An interferon gamma release assay for the detection of immune sensitization to Mycobacterium bovis in African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 55(3) 2019, 529 – 536
  • Miller MA; Buss PE; Sylverster TT; Lyashchenko KP;  de Klerk-Lorist L, Bengis RG; Hofmeyr M; Hofmeyr J; Mathebula N, Guy Hausler;  Paul van Helden; Stout E; Sven Parsons; Oleo-Popelka F.  Mycobacterium bovis  in free-Ranging  lions (Panthera leo) – evaluation of serological and tuberculin skin tests for detection of infection and disease. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 50(1): 7-15,2019
  • Meiring C; Higgitt RL; Dippenaar A; Roos E; Buss PE, Hewlett J; Cooper D; Rogers P, de Klerk-Lorist L; van Schalkwyk L; Hausler G; van Helden PD; Möller M; Warren RM; Miller MA. Characterizing epidemiological and genotypic features of Mycobacterium bovis infection in wild dogs (Lycaon pictus). Transboundary and Emerging diseases 2020; 00:1-10
  • Kerr TJ; Goosen WJ; Gumbo R; de Klerk-Lorist L; Pretorius O; Buss PE; Kleynhans L, Lyaschenko P, Warren RM; van Helden; PD Miller MA. Diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis infection in free-ranging common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius). Transboundary and Emerging diseases 2021; 00:1-7