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  Margaret A. Davis, DVM, MPH, PhD
Zoonosis Surveillance Veterinarian

Teaching Experience
Publications

Education

Doctor of Philosophy,  Molecular Epidemiology 2002
Washington State University
Department of Clinical Veterinary Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
Pullman, Washington

   
 
Master of Public Health, Epidemiology 1992
University of Washington
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Seattle, Washington

Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, 1985
Washington State University
College of Veterinary Medicine
Pullman, Washington

B.S. Zoology 1976
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts

Professional Experience

2004-2005 Public Health / Zoonotic Agent Surveillance Veterinarian
Zoonosis Research Unit and Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Washington State University

2003-2004 Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Washington State University

1997-2002 Residency-Ph.D. Program
Field Disease Investigation Unit, Veterinary Clinical Sciences Department, Washington State University

1997 Adjunct Professor
College of Pharmacy, Washington State University

1996-1997 Research Assistant
Department of Food Science and Toxicology, University of Idaho

1990-1996 Epidemiologist
Seattle-King County Department of Public Health, Communicable Diseases Epidemiology Unit.

1988-1990 Research Assistant
University of Washington: Study of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease in Women
(Dr. James Gale), Study of Neurologic Illness in Children (Dr. Gale), and a study of Lyme Disease in Dogs (Dr. Ron DiGiacomo).

1985-1988 Veterinarian
Alpine Veterinary Hospital, Missoula, Montana
Small animal medicine and surgery.

Funding / Awards

June, 2003, University of Idaho Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN) Seed Grant, $18,000. NIH funding to gather preliminary data for a project entitled “Epidemiology of Hand-washing Interventions at Animal Exhibits”.

Teaching Experience

2004-2005  Zoonotic diseases lecture, senior veterinary students
College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University.

1999-2001  Undergraduate epidemiology
Department of Molecular Biosciences, Washington Sate University.

1999-2001  Epidemiology of foodborne disease lecture, undergraduate
Food Microbiology, University of Idaho.

1998-2001  Diagnostic Challenge, Public Health
College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University.

1997  Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
College of Pharmacy, Washington State University.


Publications

Davis MA, Cloud-Hansen KA, Carpenter J, Hovde CJ. Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Environments of Culture-Positive Cattle.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2005;71(11):6816-22.

Sheng H, Davis MA, Knecht HJ, Hancock DD, Van Donkersgoed J, Hovde CJ. Characterization of a shiga toxin-, intimin-, and enterotoxin hemolysin-producing Escherichia coli ONT:H25 strain commonly isolated from healthy cattle. J Clin Microbiol. 2005;43(7):3213-20.

Sheng H, Davis MA, Knecht HJ, Hovde CJ. Rectal administration of Escherichia coli O157:H7: novel model for colonization of ruminants. Appl Environ Microbiol 2004;70 (8):4588-4595.

LeJeune JT, Davis MA. Outbreaks of zoonotic enteric disease associated with animal exhibits. J Am Vet Med Assoc 2004;224(9):1440-1445.

Davis MA, Hancock DD, Besser T, Rice DH, Hovde CJ, DiGiacomo R, Samadpour M, Call DR. Correlation between geographic distance and genetic similarity in an international collection of bovine fecal Escherichia coli O157:H7 isolates. Epidemiol Infect 2003;131:923-930.

Davis MA, Hancock DD, Rice DH, Call DR, DiGiacomo R, Samadpour M, Besser T. Feedstuffs as a vehicle of cattle exposure to Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica. Vet Micro 2003;95:199-210.

Davis MA, Hancock DD, Besser TE, Call D. Evaluation of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis as a tool for determining the degree of genetic relatedness between strains of Escherichia coli O157:H7. J Clin Microbiol 2003;41:1843-1849.

Besser TE, Hancock D, Davis MA. The veterinarian’s role in controlling the emergence and dissemination of drug-resistant bacteria. J Vet Med Educ 2003;30(2):136-9.

Davis MA, Hancock DD, Besser TE. Multiresistant clones of Salmonella enterica: The importance of dissemination. J Lab Clin Med. 2002 Sep;140(3):135-41.

Hancock D, Besser T, LeJeune J, Davis M, Rice D. The control of VTEC in the animal reservoir. Int J Food Microbiol 2001;66:71-78.

Magnuson BA, Davis MA, Hubele S, Austin PR, Kudva IT, Williams CJ, Hunt CW, Hovde CJ. Ruminant gastrointestinal cell proliferation and clearance of Escherichia coli O157:H7. Infect Immun 2000;68:3808-3814.

Jackson LA, Keene WE, McAnulty JM, Alexander ER, Diermayer M, Davis MA, et al. Where's the beef? The role of cross-contamination in four chain restaurant-associated outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in the Pacific Northwest. Arch Int Med 2000;160:2380-2385.

Hancock D, Besser T, Gay J, Rice D, Davis M, Gay C. The global epidemiology of multiresistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium DT104. Chapter 11, Emerging Diseases of Animals, Edited by C Brown and C Bolin. 2000 ASM Press, Washington, DC.

Akiba M, Rice DH, Davis MA, Masuda T, Sameshima T, Nakazawa M, Hancock DD. A comparison of Escherichia coli O157 isolates from cattle in Japan and the USA by molecular biological methods. Epidemiol Infect. 2000;125(1):221-4.

Davis MA, Hancock DD, Besser TE, Rice DH, Gay JM, Gay C, Gearhart L, DiGiacomo R. Changes in antimicrobial resistance among Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium isolates from humans and cattle in the northwestern United States, 1982-1997. Emerging Infectious Diseases 1999;5(6):802-806.

Alexander ER, Boase J, Davis M, Kirchner L, Osaki C, Tanino T, Samadpour M, Tarr P, Goldoft M, Lankford S, Kobayashi J, Stehr-Green P, Bradley P, Hinton B, Tighe P, Pearson B, Flores GR, Abbott S, Bryant R, Werner SB, Vugia DJ. Escherichia coli O157:H7 Outbreak Linked to Commercially Distributed Dry-Cured Salami --1994 Washington and California, MMWR 1995;44(09);157-160.

Bell BP, Goldoft M, Griffin PM, Davis MA, Gordon DC, Tarr PI, Bartleson CA, Lewis JH, Barrett TJ, Wells JG, Baron R, Kobayashi J. A multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 -- associated bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome from hamburgers. JAMA 1994;272:1349-1353.

Myhra W, Davis M, Mueller BA, Hickok, D. Maternal smoking and the risk of polyhydramnios. Am J Publ Health 1992;82:176-179.


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