Zoonoses Research Unit (ZRU)

Publications

1. Cobbold, R.N; Davis, M.A.; Rice, D.H.; Szymanski, M.; Tarr, P.I.; Besser, T.E.; Hancock, D.D. 2008. Associations between bovine, human, and raw milk and beef isolates of non-O157 Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli within a restricted geographic area of the USA. Journal of Food Protection. In Press.
2. Borucki, MK, J Reynolds, DR Call, T Ward, B Page, and J Kadushin. 2005. Suspension arrays for direct and high throughput subtyping of Listeria monocytogenes from genomic DNA. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 43:3255-3259.
3. Call, DR. 2005. Challenges and opportunities for pathogen detection using DNA microarrays. Critical Reviews in Microbiology 31:91-99.
4. Call, DR, MS Kang, J Daniels, and TE Besser. 2006. Assessing genetic diversity in plasmids from Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica using a mixed-plasmid microarray. Journal of Applied Microbiology 100:15-28.
5. Kang, MS, TE Besser, and DR Call. 2006. Variability in the region downstream of the blaCMY-2 β-Lactamase Gene in Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica plasmids. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 50:1590-1593.
6. Kang, MS, TE Besser, DD Hancock, S Porwollik, M McClelland, and DR Call. 2006. Identification of specific gene sequences conserved in contemporary epidemic strains of Salmonella enterica. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72:6938-6947
7. Besser TE, Shaikh N, Holt NJ, Tarr PI, Konkel ME, Malik-Kale P, Walsh CW, Whittam TS, and JL Bono. 2006. Greater diversity of shiga toxin-encoding bacteriophage insertion sites among Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolates from cattle than in those from humans. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73:671-679.
8. Davis MA, DD Hancock, TE Besser, JB Daniels, K Baker and DR Call. 2007. Antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella enterica serovar Dublin isolates from Northwestern United States dairy cattle. Veterinary Microbiology 119:221-230.
9. Dunowska, M, P Morley, J Traub-Dargatz, M Davis, G Patterson, J Frye, D Hyatt, and D Dargatz. In press. Comparison of Salmonella enterica serotype Infantis isolates from a veterinary teaching hospital. J Appl Microbiol.
10. Kang, MS, TE Besser, DD Hancock, and DR Call. 2007. Multiple environmental stress tests show no common phenotypes shared amongst contemporary epidemic strains of Salmonella enterica. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72:6938-6947.
11. Davis, MA, TE. Besser, K Eckmann, K McDonald, D Greene, DD Hancock, K.N.K. Baker, and DR Call. In press. Emerging multi-drug resistant strain of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium in cattle in the Pacific Northwest United States. Emerging Infectious Diseases.

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