Peer reviewed papers - 2006/2007
* Aguilar, D., Infante, E., Martin, C., Gormley, E., Gicquel, B., Pando, R.H., 2007. Immunological responses and protective immunity against tuberculosis conferred by vaccination of Balb/C mice with the attenuated Mycobacterium tuberculosis (phoP) SO2 strain. Clinical and Experimental Immunology 147, 330-338. [Link]
Barrett, D.J., Clegg, T.A., Healy, A.M., Doherty, M.L., 2006. A study of dry cow therapy and effects on SCC in 10 Irish dairy herds. Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series A 53, 140-144. [DOI link]
Collins, J.D., 2006. Tuberculosis in cattle: strategic planning for the future. Veterinary Microbiology 112, 369-381. [DOI link]
** Costello, E., Flynn, O., Quigley, F., O’Grady, D., Griffin, J., Clegg, T., McGrath, G., 2006. Genotyping of Mycobacterium bovis isolates from badgers in four areas of the Republic of Ireland by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Veterinary Record 159, 619-623. [DOI link]
* Corner, L.A., 2006. The role of wild animal populations in the epidemiology of tuberculosis in domestic animals: how to assess the risk. Veterinary Microbiology 112, 303-312. [DOI link]
* Corner, L.A., Costello, E., Lesellier, S., O'Meara, D., Sleeman, D.P., Gormley, E., 2007. Experimental tuberculosis in the European badger (Meles meles) after endobronchial inoculation of Mycobacterium bovis: I. Pathology and bacteriology. Research in Veterinary Science 83, 53-62. [DOI link]
* Davison, K.E., Hughes, L.J., Gormley, E., Lesellier, S., Costello, E., Corner, L.A., 2007. Evaluation of the anaesthetic effects of combinations of ketamine, medetomidine, romifidine and butorphanol in European badgers (Meles meles). Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia 34, 394-402. [DOI link]
Frankena, K., White, P.W., O’Keeffe, J., Costello, E., Martin, S.W., van Grevenhof, I., More, S.J., 2007. Quantification of the relative efficiency of factory surveillance in the disclosure of tuberculosis lesions in attested Irish cattle. Veterinary Record 161, 679-684. [DOI link]
* Gormley, E., 2007. Diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis infection in cattle. Bulletin of the International Dairy Federation: International Dairy Federation. Animal Health: Management and Control of infectious and Production Diseases 416, 101-109. [Link]
* Gormley, E., Doyle, M.B., Fitzsimons, T., McGill, K., Collins, J.D., 2006. Diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis infection in cattle by use of the gamma-interferon (Bovigam®) assay. Veterinary Microbiology 112, 171-179. [DOI link]
* Martin, C., Williams, A., Hernandez-Pando, R., Cardona, P.J., Gormley, E., Bordat, Y., Soto, C.Y., Clark, S.O., Hatch, G.J., Aguilar, D., Ausina, V., Gicquel, B., 2006. The live Mycobacterium tuberculosis phoP mutant strain is more attenuated than BCG and confers protective immunity against tuberculosis in mice and guinea pigs. Vaccine 24, 3408-3419. [DOI link]
* Meade, K.G., Gormley, E., Doyle, M.B., Fitzsimons, T., O'Farrelly, C., Costello, E., Keane, J., Zhao, Y., MacHugh, D.E., 2007. Innate gene repression associated with Mycobacterium bovis infection in cattle: toward a gene signature of disease. BMC Genomics 8, 400. [DOI link]
* Meade, K.G., Gormley, E., Park, S.D.E., Fitzsimons, T., Rosa, G.J.M., Costello, E., Keane, J., Coussens, P.M.,MacHugh, D.E., 2006. Gene expression profiling of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from Mycobacterium bovis infected cattle after in vitro antigenic stimulation with purified protein derivative of tuberculin (PPD). Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology 113, 73-89. [DOI link]
More, S.J., 2007. Progress in Ireland towards the eradication of bovine tuberculosis. UK Vet Livestock 12, 60-63. [Link]
More, S.J., 2007. Shaping our future: animal health in a global trading environment. Irish Veterinary Journal 60, 540-545. [DOI link]
More, S.J., Clegg, T.A., McGrath, G., Collins, J.D., Corner, L.A.L., Gormley, E., 2007. Does reactive badger culling lead to an increase in tuberculosis in cattle? Veterinary Record 161, 208-209. [DOI link]
More, S.J., Collins, J.D., Good, M., Skuce, R.A., Pollock, J.M., Gormley, E., 2006. Preface, editorial. Veterinary Microbiology 112, 89-89. [DOI Link]
More, S.J., Collins, J.D., Gormley, E., Good, M., Skuce, R.A., Pollock, J.M., 2006. 4th International Conference on Mycobacterium bovis: workshop reports. Veterinary Microbiology 112, 383-391. [DOI Link]
More, S.J., Good, M., 2006. The tuberculosis eradication programme in Ireland: a review of scientific and policy advances since 1988. Veterinary Microbiology 112, 239-51. [DOI link]
** Murphy, T.M., Fahy, K.N., McAuliffe, A., Forbes, A.B., Clegg, T.A., O’Brien, D.J., 2006. A study of helminth parasites in culled cows from Ireland. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 76, 1-10. [DOI link]
Olea-Popelka, F.J., Phelan, J., White, P.W., McGrath, G., Collins, J.D., O’Keeffe, J., Duggan, M., Collins, D.M., Kelton, D.F., Berke, O., More, S.J., Martin, S.W., 2006. Quantifying badger exposure and the risk of bovine tuberculosis for cattle herds in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 75, 34-36. [DOI link]
* The TB Diagnostics and Immunology Research Centre and The Badger Vaccine Project
** DAFM Veterinary Laboratory Service
*** UCC School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
**** School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
