Identification and epidemiological analysis of Perostrongylus falciformis infestation in Irish badgers

BACKGROUND: 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...

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Autores principales: OC. Byrne, Jennifer, Byrne, Andrew W., Zintl, Annetta, Jankowska, Karolina, Coulange, Emmanuel, de Waal, Theo, McCarthy, Grainne, O’Keeffe, James, Hamnes, Inger S., Fogarty, Ursula
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6617904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31333818
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13620-019-0144-6
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author OC. Byrne, Jennifer
Byrne, Andrew W.
Zintl, Annetta
Jankowska, Karolina
Coulange, Emmanuel
de Waal, Theo
McCarthy, Grainne
O’Keeffe, James
Hamnes, Inger S.
Fogarty, Ursula
author_facet OC. Byrne, Jennifer
Byrne, Andrew W.
Zintl, Annetta
Jankowska, Karolina
Coulange, Emmanuel
de Waal, Theo
McCarthy, Grainne
O’Keeffe, James
Hamnes, Inger S.
Fogarty, Ursula
author_sort OC. Byrne, Jennifer
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description BACKGROUND: 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.
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spelling pubmed-66179042019-07-22 Identification and epidemiological analysis of Perostrongylus falciformis infestation in Irish badgers OC. Byrne, Jennifer Byrne, Andrew W. Zintl, Annetta Jankowska, Karolina Coulange, Emmanuel de Waal, Theo McCarthy, Grainne O’Keeffe, James Hamnes, Inger S. Fogarty, Ursula Ir Vet J Research BACKGROUND: 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. BioMed Central 2019-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6617904/ /pubmed/31333818 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13620-019-0144-6 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis 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.
spellingShingle Research
OC. Byrne, Jennifer
Byrne, Andrew W.
Zintl, Annetta
Jankowska, Karolina
Coulange, Emmanuel
de Waal, Theo
McCarthy, Grainne
O’Keeffe, James
Hamnes, Inger S.
Fogarty, Ursula
Identification and epidemiological analysis of Perostrongylus falciformis infestation in Irish badgers
title Identification and epidemiological analysis of Perostrongylus falciformis infestation in Irish badgers
title_full Identification and epidemiological analysis of Perostrongylus falciformis infestation in Irish badgers
title_fullStr Identification and epidemiological analysis of Perostrongylus falciformis infestation in Irish badgers
title_full_unstemmed Identification and epidemiological analysis of Perostrongylus falciformis infestation in Irish badgers
title_short Identification and epidemiological analysis of Perostrongylus falciformis infestation in Irish badgers
title_sort identification and epidemiological analysis of perostrongylus falciformis infestation in irish badgers
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6617904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31333818
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13620-019-0144-6
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