| trichinosis in south-west ireland. | since the large outbreak of trichinosis in liverpool in 1953 there have been three outbreaks in ireland, two occurring recently in cork and kerry, where a total of 76 cases was confirmed. in the outbreak of 50 cases in kerry the latex trichina slide agglutination test was found to be valuable diagnostically and epidemiologically, while the efficacy of thiabendazole treatment was not established. this infection may be maintained as a reservoir in wild carnivores, occasionally spreading to pigs an ... | 1969 | 5815052 |
| detection and characterization of group c rotaviruses in asymptomatic piglets in ireland. | group c rotaviruses are important human enteric pathogens that have also been detected in a variety of mammalian species, including pigs. group c rotaviruses have been identified in piglets with diarrhea, but their ecology remains to be elucidated. by screening of 292 fecal samples collected from 4- to 5-week-old asymptomatic pigs from four herds in ireland between 2005 and 2007, 13 (4.4%) samples tested positive by reverse transcription-pcr for group c rotavirus. group a rotaviruses were also d ... | 2008 | 18632912 |
| the prevalence and distribution of alaria alata, a potential zoonotic parasite, in foxes in ireland. | the digenean trematode alaria alata, an intestinal parasite of wild canids is widely distributed in europe. the recent finding of the mesocercarial life cycle stage in the paratenic wild boar host suggests that it may potentially infect humans mohl et al. (parasitol res 105:1-15, 2009). over 500 foxes were examined during a wildlife survey for zoonotic diseases in 2009 and 2010. the prevalence of a. alata ranged from 21% to 26% in 2009 and 2010, and the intensity of infection varied, with the ma ... | 2012 | 22350672 |
| antimicrobial resistance profiling and dna amplification fingerprinting (daf) of thermophilic campylobacter spp. in human, poultry and porcine samples from the cork region of ireland. | antimicrobial resistance (r) typing and dna amplification fingerprinting (daf) of a random collection of 84 irish thermophilic campylobacter isolates is described. the collection included human, veterinary (porcine) and poultry isolates cultured between 1996 and 1998 in the cork region of ireland. biochemical and molecular methods were used to identify campylobacter jejuni and camp. coli. many of these isolates were simultaneously resistant to several common antimicrobial agents. in particular, ... | 2000 | 11119145 |