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Food
Animal Medicine
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Food Animal Medicine is the synthesis
of internal medicine, population medicine and epidemiology to
maximize health, well being and productivity of the food animal
species including dairy and beef cattle, swine, goats, sheep,
poultry and fish, which ultimately result in a high quality
and safe food products for consumers throughout the world.
Speciality areas include:
- Advances in diagnostics and treatment of disease
in food animal species
- The effects of disease on performance in food animal
populations
- The development of new management strategies to
maximize food animal health and productivity
- Act as an innovator and conduit of new technology
to food technology to food animal populations that
increase efficiency of production systems
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RESEARCH AREAS INCLUDE:
Caprine arthritis, encephalitis virus infection, foothill abortion,
trichomoniasis, chlamydia vaccine development, pinkeye, camphylobacter
vaccine development and Salmonella.
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