Giuseppe
Emeritus
Epidemiol Infect. 2008 Sep 17:1-9. [Epub ahead of print]
Avian influenza viruses detected by surveillance of waterfowl in Ireland during 2003-2007.
Raleigh PJ, Flynn O, O'Connor M, O'Donovan T, Purcell B, DE Burca M, Regazzoli V, Minihan D, Connell J, Markey BK, Sammin DJ.
Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Laboratories, Backweston Campus, Stacumny Lane, Celbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
SUMMARY
Specimens for the detection of avian influenza virus (AIV) were collected from 1937 waterfowl on the Wexford Sloblands, a major wetland reserve in southeast Ireland, between January 2003 and September 2007.
During the same period, 1404 waterfowl were sampled at other locations in Ireland.
Specimens were tested either by virus isolation or real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (rtRTPCR.
Ecological factors are likely to have contributed to the higher detection rate of AIV at the Sloblands compared with the rest of Ireland.
It was concluded that targeted surveillance at such sites is a cost-effective means of monitoring the circulation of new AIVs in waterfowl, whereas widespread opportunistic sampling is unproductive and wasteful of resources.
PMID: 18796177 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher
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Avian influenza viruses detected by surveillance of waterfowl in Ireland during 2003-2007.
Raleigh PJ, Flynn O, O'Connor M, O'Donovan T, Purcell B, DE Burca M, Regazzoli V, Minihan D, Connell J, Markey BK, Sammin DJ.
Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Laboratories, Backweston Campus, Stacumny Lane, Celbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
SUMMARY
Specimens for the detection of avian influenza virus (AIV) were collected from 1937 waterfowl on the Wexford Sloblands, a major wetland reserve in southeast Ireland, between January 2003 and September 2007.
During the same period, 1404 waterfowl were sampled at other locations in Ireland.
Specimens were tested either by virus isolation or real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (rtRTPCR.
Ecological factors are likely to have contributed to the higher detection rate of AIV at the Sloblands compared with the rest of Ireland.
It was concluded that targeted surveillance at such sites is a cost-effective means of monitoring the circulation of new AIVs in waterfowl, whereas widespread opportunistic sampling is unproductive and wasteful of resources.
PMID: 18796177 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher
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