Presentations and Conferences
Presentations to national and international conferences.
International conferences attended.
Multiple-locus variable number of tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) of E. coli O157 isolates. [Poster]
Murphy M., D. Minihan, J. F. Buckley, Paul Whyte, M. O Mahony and S. Fanning.
Second Annual Meeting of the Safefood VTEC Research Network, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, UK, 23 November 2005.
The antimicrobial resistance profiles of Campylobacter and E. coli O157 isolates from a cohort of clinically normal feedlot cattle.
Minihan D.
Abbotstown Seminars, Department of Agriculture and Food, Dublin, Ireland, May 18th 2005.
Campylobacter spp in Irish feedlot cattle: A longitudinal study involving pre-harvest and harvest phases of the food chain. [Poster]
Minihan D., P. Whyte, M. O?ahony, J.D. Collins.
Abbotstown Seminars, May 18th 2005.
PCV2 and Associated Disease - PMWS.
Donnelly M., D. Walls, D. Minihan and G. Allan.
Abbotstown Seminars, Department of Agriculture and Food, Dublin, Ireland, May 4th 2005.
Aujeszky? disease, Control and Eradication.
Minihan D.
Annual Veterinary Officer Association Conference. Athlone, Ireland, April 15th 2005.
An Investigation of the effect transport and lairage of feedlot cattle on the campylobacter prevalence in faeces and on dressed carcasses.
Minihan D., M. O?ahony, P. Whyte, Seamus Fanning, M. Doyle and J. D. Collins.
Animal Production in Europe: The way forward in a changing world, Saint-Malo, France, October 11-13th 2004, pp 409-410.
Aujeszky? disease, an Irish review.
Minihan D.
Department of Agriculture and Food Scientific Seminar. Tullamore, Ireland, May 11th 2004.
Aujeszky? disease, a review of the national serological survey.
Minihan D.
Department of Agriculture and Food Scientific Seminar. Tullamore, Ireland, November 27th 2003.
An investigation on the effect of transport and lairage on the faecal shedding prevalences of Esherichia coli O157 in cattle.
Minihan D., P.Whyte, M. O'Mahony, J.D. Collins.
Abbotstown Seminars, Department of Agriculture and Food, Dublin, Ireland, October 2003.
An investigation on the effect of transport and lairage on the faecal shedding prevalences of Esherichia coli O157 in cattle.
Minihan D., P.Whyte, M. O'Mahony, J.D. Collins.
5th International Symposium on Shiga Toxin (Verocytotoxin) -? Producing Escherichia coli Infections, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 8-11th 2003.
Escherichia coli O157 in Irish feedlot cattle: A longitudinal study involving pre-harvest and harvest phases of the food chain.
Minihan D., M. O?ahony and P. Whyte.
Association of Veterinary Teachers and Research Workers Winter Meeting, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, November 2002. Irish Veterinary Journal, 2003. 56(1): 43.
PRV research at Abbotstown.
Minihan D., P.J. O?eilly.
Review meeting of the 2002/3 National Aujeszky? survey, Department of Agriculture and Food. City West Hotel, Dublin, Ireland, November 2003.
Current Campylobacter research in the food hygiene laboratory, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin.
Whyte P., D. Minihan, K. McGill, D. Cowley and J. D. Collins.
Campylobacter Research Form, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 10th September 2002, p 6.
A longitudinal surveillance study of Escherichia coli O157 of cattle from the feedlot to the abattoir. Euroconference, Food Safety Assurance and Veterinary Public Health; The Topical Research Issues, Event 3, Risk Management Strategies: Monitoring and Surveillance.
Minihan D., P. Whyte and O?ahony M.
University Industry Centre, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 7th to 9th September 2002.
The effect of steam pasteurisation on the microbial parameters of beef carcasses. [Poster]
Minihan D.
32nd Annual Food Science and Technology Research Conference, Cork, Ireland, 12-13 September 2002, pp 82.
An assessment of the pre-harvest factors including transport and lairage, on the prevalence of Escherichia coli O157 on beef.
Minihan D.
Verotoxigenic E. coli Research Forum, FoodSafety Promotion Board, Alexander Hotel, Dublin, Ireland, 26th November 2001.
International Conferences
May 2003, 2004 & 2005 Represented the Irish Department of Agriculture as the National Laboratory expert on African Swine Fever at the EU Annual National African Swine Fever Laboratory Meetings.
October 2003 Represented the Irish National Classical Swine Fever Laboratory at the EU Workshop on Classical Swine Fever: Clinical Signs, Epidemiology and Control.
29th June to 2nd July 2003 4th International Symposium on Emerging and Re-emerging Pig Diseases: PRRS, PMWS and Swine Influenza. Palazzo dei Congressi, Rome.
September 2001 Euroconference in Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health 2 - Safety Assurance During Food Processing, Vienna, Austria.
January 2001 The North American Veterinary Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA.
October 1999 Irish Veterinary Conference, Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland.