Dr. Christine Cain is an assistant professor of dermatology at the University of
Tennessee, College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Cain’s teaching interests include
instruction of veterinary students, interns, residents, technicians, and veterinary
practitioners in the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management of dermatologic conditions
in small and large animals. Her main clinical interests within the field of veterinary
dermatology include infectious disease, dermatopathology, and allergy/immunology. Her
primary research interests are staphylococcal infections, particularly the pathogenesis
and treatment of recurrent pyoderma, immunologic response to staphylococcal infections,
antimicrobial resistance (including methicillin resistance), and the implications of
antimicrobial resistance for clinical practice of veterinary dermatology.

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Clinical characterization of Staphylococcus schleiferi infections and identification of risk factors for acquisition of oxacillin-resistant strains in dogs: 225 cases (2003-2009). (with D. O. Morris and S. C. Rankin), Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (2011)

OBJECTIVE: To define clinical differences between coagulase-positive and coagulase-negative Staphylococcus schleiferi infections in dogs and...

 

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Genotypic relatedness and phenotypic characterization of Staphylococcus schleiferi subspecies in clinical samples from dogs. (with D. O. Morris, K. O'Shea, and S. C. Rankin), American Journal of Veterinary Research (2011)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the degree of biological similarity (on the basis of genotype determined via...