Contributors ix
StefanNiewiesk,DVM,PhD,DECLAM
Associate Professor
Department of Veterinary Biosciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Michael Oglesbee, DVM, PhD, DACVP
Professor and Chair
Department of Veterinary Biosciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Steven Olsen, DVM, PhD, DACVM
Research Leader and Supervisory Veterinary Medical
Officer
USDA ARS NADC
Infectious Bacterial Disease Unit
Ames, IA
LisaM.Pohlman,DVM,MS,DACVP
Assistant Professor and Director, Clinical Pathology
Laboratory
Diagnostic Medicine Pathobiology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS
John F. Prescott, MA, Vet MB, PhD
Professor
Department of Pathobiology
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario
Juergen A. Richt, DVM, PhD
Regents Distinguished Professor and KBA Eminent Scholar
Director of the Center of Excellence in Emerging and
Zoonotic Diseases
Diagnostic Medicine Pathobiology
Center of Excellence in Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases
College of Veterinary Medicine
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS
Luis L. Rodriguez, DVM, PhD
Research Leader and Supervisory Veterinary Medical
Officer
USDA ARS PIADC
Foreign Animal Disease Research Unit
Greenport, NY
Raymond R. Rowland, MS, PhD
Professor
Diagnostic Medicine Pathobiology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS
Ronald D. Schultz, MS, PhD, Honorary DACVM
Professor and Chair
Department of Pathobiological Sciences
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
Mark S. Smeltzer, PhD
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
College of Medicine
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR
David J. Steffen, DVM, PhD, DACVP
Professor
School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Lincoln, NE
George C. Stewart, MS, PhD
Chair and McKee Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis
Department of Veterinary Pathobiology
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO
Erin L. Strait, DVM, PhD
Director, US Swine Biological R&D
Merck Animal Health
De Soto, KS
Dongseob Tark, DVM, PhD
Animal Plant Quarantine Agency, Manan-gu, Anyang-si
Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Brian M. Thompson
MS, PhD
President and CEO
Elemental Enzymes, Inc.
Columbia, MO
Benjamin R. Trible, MS
Diagnostic Medicine Pathobiology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS
Rebecca P. Wilkes, DVM, PhD, DACVM
Research Assistant Professor
Diagnostic Sciences and Education
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
William Wilson, MS, PhD
Research Microbiologist
USDA ARS CGAHR
Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit
Manhattan, KS
Amelia R. Woolums, DVM, MVSc, PhD, DACVIM,
DACVM
Senior Teaching Fellow
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Georgia
Athens, GA