Publications

the prevalence of gasterophilus intestinalis and g nasalis in horses in ireland.	during the months october-may inclusive 90-8% of horses slaughtered at an abattoir near dublin and 66-9% of those at an abattoir near belfast were infected with gasterophilus intestinalis; 28-6% of horses at the former abattoir harboured g nasalis while none of the horses examined at the latter abattoir was found to be infected with this species.	1976	1274134
molecular characterization of equine rotavirus in ireland.	group a rotaviruses are important causative agents of severe, acute dehydrating diarrhea in foals. a total of 86 rotavirus-positive fecal samples, collected from diarrheic foals from 11 counties in three of the four provinces of ireland, were obtained from the irish equine centre in kildare during a 7-year (1999 to 2005) passive surveillance study and were characterized molecularly to establish the vp7 (g type) and vp4 (p type) antigenic specificities. fifty-eight samples (67.5%) were found to c ...	2008	18716232
an outbreak of equine infectious anaemia in ireland during 2006: the modes of transmission and spread in the kildare cluster.		2008	19165943
isolation rates of meticillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in dogs, cats and horses in ireland.	a retrospective analysis and prospective surveillance study were conducted to determine isolation rates of meticillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) in dogs, cats and horses in ireland. clinical samples that had been submitted to university college dublin (ucd) for routine microbiological examination over a four-year period (2003 to 2006) were analysed in the retrospective analysis, which included clinical samples from 3866 animals. in the prospective surveillance study, samples from hea ...	2010	20382932