Identification and epidemiological analysis of Perostrongylus falciformis infestation in Irish badgers

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dc.contributor.authorByrne, Jennifer O.C.
dc.contributor.authorByrne, Andrew W.
dc.contributor.authorZintl, Annetta
dc.contributor.authorJankowska, Karolina
dc.contributor.authorCouange, Emmanuel
dc.contributor.authorde Waal, Theo
dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy, Crainne
dc.contributor.authorO'Keefe, James
dc.contributor.authorHamnes, Inger S.
dc.contributor.authorFogarty, Ursula
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-07T15:08:41Z
dc.date.available2020-07-07T15:08:41Z
dc.date.issued2019-07-09
dc.descriptionPublication history: Accepted - 24 June 2019; Published Online - 9 July 2019en_US
dc.description.abstractBackground: The lungworm, Perostrongylus falciformis (fomerly known as Aelurostrongylus falciformis) has been identified in badgers (Meles meles) in Britain, the Russian Federation, Italy, Norway, Poland, Ukraine, Bosnia Herzegovina and Romania, while Aelurostrongylus pridhami has been reported from badgers in Spain. Results: Pulmonary tissue from 1580 Irish badgers was examined and an estimated prevalence of 32.09% (95% CI: 29.79–34.45%) of this parasite was detected. Confirmation of its occurrence was made by PCR analysis on a subset of the population. Conclusion: Infestation was widely distributed throughout the Republic of Ireland, with a trend towards higher infestation risk in western versus eastern counties. In addition males were at a higher risk of infestation than females and juveniles were at a significantly higher risk than adult badgers.en_US
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12518/148
dc.identifier.citationOC. Byrne, J., Byrne, A. W., Zintl, A., Jankowska, K., Coulange, E., de Waal, T., McCarthy, G., O’Keeffe, J., Hamnes, I. S. and Fogarty, U. (2019) ‘Identification and epidemiological analysis of Perostrongylus falciformis infestation in Irish badgers’, Irish Veterinary Journal. Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 72(1). doi: 10.1186/s13620-019-0144-6.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2046-0481
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12518/148
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.rightsOpen Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.en_US
dc.subject: Badger, Meles meles, Lungworm, Perostrongylus falciformis, Irelanden_US
dc.titleIdentification and epidemiological analysis of Perostrongylus falciformis infestation in Irish badgersen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dcterms.dateAccepted2019-07-09
dcterms.dateSubmitted2018-11-19

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