Enteric commensal bacteria of food animals may serve as a reservoir of genes encoding antimicrobial...

Healthy cattle and their environment are the reservoir for the human pathogen Escherichia coli O157....

Antimicrobial use in food animals may contribute to antimicrobial resistance in bacteria of animals and...

Objective. Recent outbreaks of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) have been difficult to control, and data...

Foodborne diseases are a significant health care and economical burden. Most foodborne pathogens are enteric...

Clostridium difficile is a well recognized pathogen of humans and animals. Although C. difficile was...

Cattle are recognized as an important source of foodborne Salmonella causing human illness, particularly for...

In recent decades, theory addressing the processes that underlie the dynamics of infectious diseases has...

A mechanistic and dynamic model was developed to represent physiological aspects of particle dynamics in...

Escherichia coli O157:H7 is a potentially fatal foodborne pathogen with a putative reservoir for human...

Adequate predictions of rumen-degradable protein (RDP) and rumen-undegradable protein (RUP) supplies are necessary to optimize...

The objective of this study was to address the impact of heterogeneity of infectious period...

Salmonellosis in calves has economic and welfare implications, and serves as a potential source of...

A mechanistic and dynamic model was developed to represent the physiological aspects of liquid dynamics...

Balancing ruminant diets for appropriate levels and types of dietary carbohydrates (CHO) is necessary to...

Grain fermentability largely determines the feed value of grains for ruminants. Our objective was to...

Production efficiency decreases when diets are not properly balanced for protein. Sensitivity analyses of the...

Empirical equations were developed to accurately predict passage rate (K p) in ration formulation models...