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Anthony W. Confer 4/26/2018

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CURRICULUM VITAE

ANTHONY WAYNE CONFER REGENTS PROFESSOR OF VETERINARY PATHOLOGY

WALTER SITLINGTON CHAIR FOR FOOD & FIBER RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY PATHOBIOLOGY

COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY

250 MCELROY HALL STILLWATER, OK 74078-2007

405-744-4542 FAX: 405-744-5275

[email protected] PERSONAL

Born: July 29, 1947, in Hot Springs, Arkansas Married: Carolyn Pope (August 15, 1970) Children: Andrew (April 18, 1974), Aaron (March 20, 1976), Michael (October 18,

1978), Christina (April 9, 1982) Grandchildren Ten

EDUCATION

B.S. (Biological Science) Oklahoma State University 1971 D.V.M. Oklahoma State University 1972 M.S. (Veterinary Pathology) The Ohio State University 1974 Ph.D. (Microbiology) University of Missouri - Columbia 1978

SPECIALTY BOARD CERTIFICATION

Diplomate American College of Veterinary Pathologists 1977

HONORS

Phi Zeta (veterinary medicine honor society) 1972 Arkansas Veterinary Medical Association Senior Student Award 1972 Certificate of Meritorious Service, AFIP 1976 NCI-National Research Service Fellowship 1976 Associate Member of Graduate Faculty - LSU 1979 Tenured Faculty Member - LSU 1980 Member of Graduate Faculty - LSU 1981 Member of Graduate Faculty - OSU 1981 American Men & Women of Science 1982 Tenured Faculty Member - OSU 1984 Who's Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology 1985 Who's Who in Veterinary Science and Medicine, 1st Edition 1987 The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership 1991 AVMA, AFIA Veterinary Medical Research Award 1992 Oklahoma State University Sigma Xi Chapter Lecturer 1993 Outstanding Instructor - Second Year Class 1993


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Who's Who in America, 48th and subsequent Editions 1994 Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 3rd and subsequent Editions 1995 Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, 1st Edition 1997 2000 Outstanding People of the 20th Century, International Biographical Centre 1997 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 21st Century, International Biographical Centre 2002 Norden Distinguished Teacher Award 1987, 2002 American Men and Women of Science 2003 Oklahoma State University Eminent Faculty Award 2003 Oklahoma State University Leadership Legacy – October 19-26 2003 National Phi Zeta Distinguished Service Award 2005 Oklahoma Journal Record “On the Brink” Award for Research Innovation 2006 Guide to America’s Top Veterinarians, 1st Ed. Consumer Research Council 2006 Regents Distinguished Teaching Award, CVHS 2008 Distinguished Alumnus Award - OSU College of Veterinary Medicine 2009 Pfizer Award for Research Excellence 1985, 2011 Inducted into Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame 2015 OSU “Leave the Ladder Down” mentoring award 2016

MAJOR PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

Pathogenesis and immunity in bovine respiratory disease Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases Immunity to Infectious Diseases General Veterinary Pathology Molecular Approaches to Pathogenesis and Immunity

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Academy of Veterinary Consultants American College of Veterinary Pathologists - Certified Veterinary Pathologist, 1977 - present American Society of Microbiology American Veterinary Medical Association C.L. Davis Foundation Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases Phi Zeta Veterinary Comparative Respiratory Society

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Regents Professor, Oklahoma State University, 2003 - present Sitlington Chair for Food Animal Research, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State

University, 1995-present. Professor, Veterinary Pathology, Oklahoma State University, 1985-present. Head, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Oklahoma State University, 2004 - 2008 Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma

State University, 1999-2001. Head, Department of Anatomy, Pathology and Pharmacology, Oklahoma State University, 1996-1999 Head, Department of Veterinary Pathology, Oklahoma State University, 1986-1996. Visiting Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of British Columbia, August 1990-February

1991. Associate Professor, Veterinary Pathology, Department of Veterinary Pathology, Oklahoma State

University, 1981-1985. Associate Professor, Veterinary Pathology, Department of Veterinary Pathology, Louisiana State

University, 1978-1981. Postdoctoral Fellow, National Cancer Institute, Department of Veterinary Microbiology, University of

Missouri-Columbia, 1976-1978.


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Captain, US Air Force, Veterinary Corps; Staff Pathologist; Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Department of Veterinary Pathology, Washington DC, 1974-1976.

Postdoctoral Trainee, National Institutes of Health Fellowship Award, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, The Ohio State University, 1972-1974.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Ohio State University - V.Path. 794.06 Advanced Veterinary Virology, paramyxoviruses and

adenoviruses. AFIP - Vet Path Residency Program, viral diseases of the CNS. Pathology of Laboratory Animals

Course, viral diseases of cats. Resident Case Reviewer, 1975-1976. University of Missouri - V.Path. 232BV Systemic and Special Pathology II - Respiratory Diseases of

Dogs and Cats. Louisiana State University - VP7502, VP7503 - Advanced Veterinary Pathology - Urinary and Nervous

Systems (Graduate Course); VP7501 - Cellular Pathology - Inflammation, Viral Mechanisms of Disease and Oncogenesis (Graduate Course); VMED 5221 - Systemic Pathology - Urinary and Nervous Systems (Veterinary Curriculum); VMED 5311, 5312 - Infectious Diseases of Domestic Animals (Veterinary Curriculum); VMED 5452 - Diagnostic Pathology Block.

Oklahoma State University – Professional curriculum 1981-2000. VPATH 5315, 5425 (1981-2000, course coordinator 5425, 1992-2000) - Veterinary Pathology - immunopathology (1981-1985); digestive (1988,1989,1992), urinary (1981-1999), endocrine (1995-1999), nervous (1981-2000), muscle (1997), musculoskeletal (1999-2000), and lymphoreticular systems (1981-1985); VPATH 6523 (1981-1989) - Pathology of Infectious Diseases - Small Animal Diseases; VPATH 6950 (Graduate Course) - Advanced Systemic Pathology - Mechanisms of Disease; VPATH 6612 (1989-1990, course coordinator) - Diseases of Birds and Laboratory Animals - Poultry Diseases; VPATH 6950 (Graduate Course)(1994) - Bacterial Mechanisms of Disease; VPATH 6920 - Diagnostic Pathology (1981-2000).

Professional curriculum 2000 – present. VMED 5264 (2000 - 2001) – General Pathology Course - Neoplasia and Diseases of Aging. VMED 7264, General Pathology (Instructor of Record, 2002 – present), teach cell responses to injury, etiologies, neoplasia, Immunopathology, and aging. Teach or taught Pathology in the following courses: VMED 7662 (2000 – present) - Urinary System course – urinary system pathology; VMED 7563 (2000 – 2003) - Musculoskeletal System course; VMED 7663 (2001- present) - Neurology course (Instructor of Record, 2001) - neuropathology; VMED 7574 (2001) - Alimentary System - liver and exocrine pancreas pathology; VMED 7674 (2004) – Theriogenology Course – Reproductive Pathology; Year 4 - Diagnostics block, Instructor of Record – 2001 – 2008; VMED 7350 & 7450 – Infectious Diseases I & II – Bacterial respiratory, nervous, and ophthalmologic diseases – 2007-2008; VMED 7350 – Infectious Diseases I – Bovine Respiratory Disease - 2009 - present.

Graduate curriculum – Veterinary Biomedical Sciences Program. VBSC 5023, Pathobiology - Cell Adaptation, Growth, & Injury, & Etiologies. Instructor of Record, 2011-present,

GRADUATE THESIS & DISSERTATION RESEARCH

M.S. - In Vitro Comparison of Canine Distemper Virus Isolates with Respect to Neurovirulence.

(Advisors: A Koestner and DE Kahn) Ph.D. - Cell-Mediated Immunity of Marek's Disease. (Advisor: HK Adldinger)

PAST FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

Principal Investigator - 1979-1981 - The Effects of Infectious Bursal Disease on the Thymus and

Cell-Mediated Immune Response in Chickens. LSU-SVM Organized Research Funds - Total funding $9,000.

Co-investigator - 1980-1981 (RW Fulton - Principal Investigator) - Bovine Respiratory Diseases: Pathogenesis and Role of Interferon - Special Research Grants Program, USDA - $100,000.

Co-investigator - 1981-1982 (DU Reavis - Principal Investigator) - Monensin Toxicity in Sheep - Funded by interdepartmental research funds & OAES - $2,500.


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Principal Investigator - 1982 - Electron Microscopic Changes in Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle from Sheep with Experimental Monensin Toxicosis - Grant-in-aid, Eli Lilly Corp. - $1,980.

Principal Investigator - 1984-1985 - The role of P. haemolytica endotoxin in pneumonic pasteurellosis - OAES #1917, Vet Med Seed Grants, $2,500.

Principal Investigator - 1983-1986 - Bovine Immunity: Pasteurella haemolytica Capsular Antigens and Cytotoxin - Special Grant Program, USDA - $150,000.

Co-investigator - 1984 (RW Fulton - Principal Investigator - A Pharmacokinetic study of Recombinant bovine alpha-1 interferon in cattle following various routes of administration. Genentech, $12,000.

Co-investigator - 1986 (RW Fulton - Principal Investigator) - In vivo study of human interferon administered to cattle. Pharmacokinetics and immunomodulation. Hoffman-LaRoche, $43,000.

Project Director and Principal Investigator - 1982-1987 - Vaccination for Bovine Brucellosis: Field and Laboratory Studies-Cooperative Agreement, USDA-ARS-$750,000.

Principal Investigator - 1985-1988 - P. haemolytica cytotoxin: Molecular studies of pathogenesis and immunogenicity. Special Research Grant Program - USDA - $150,000.

Co-investigator - 1988 (JH Wyckoff - Principal Investigator) - Identification of Immunodominant Antigens of B. abortus recognized by bovine T lymphocytes. AVMA Foundation - $3,676.

Co-investigator - 1987-1988 (JH Wyckoff - Principal Investigator) - Immunodominant Antigens of B. abortus identified with immune bovine T cells. OSU - CVM Seed Grants - $7,250.

Principal Investigator - 1986-1989 - Characterization of an immunogenic carbohydrate protein subunit of P. haemolytica. Special Grants Program, USDA - $147,930.

Principal Investigator - 1989-1991 - Expression and immunogenicity of P. haemolytica outer membrane proteins. Fort Dodge Laboratories - $30,000.

Principal Investigator - 1981-1991 - Immunologic responses in pneumonic pasteurellosis. USDA 1433 funds for Animal Health, OAES Project #1725 - $180,000

Principal Investigator - 1989-1991 - A Pasteurella haemolytica subunit vaccine. Special Grants Program, USDA - $96,744.

Project Coordinator - 1987-1992 - Immunity to Bovine Brucellosis. Cooperative Agreement, USDA-ARS - $800,000.

Principal Investigator - 1991-1992 - Pasteurella vaccine evaluation. SmithKline, Beecham Laboratories - $32,418.

Co-principal Investigator - 1989-1992 (JH Wyckoff - Principal Investigator) - Identification of T-cell vaccine candidates for Brucella abortus in cattle. Special Grants Program - USDA - $40,000.

Co-Principal Investigator - 1989-1992 (JH Wyckoff - Principal Investigator) - Identification of immunodominant Brucella abortus antigens with bovine T-cells. Competitive Grants Program, USDA - $100,000.

Co-Principal Investigator - 1990-1994 (JH Wyckoff - Principal Investigator) - A subunit vaccine for bovine brucellosis. OCAST - Applied Research Funding - $275,965.

Co-Principal Investigator - 1991-1994 (GL Murphy - Principal Investigator) - Immunologic characterization of Pasteurella haemolytica outer membrane proteins. OAES and Section 1433 Animal Health Formula Funds - $43,000.

Principal Investigator - 1992-1994 - Immunity to Pasteurella haemolytica iron-regulated proteins in bovine pasteurellosis. OAES and Section 1433 Animal Health Formula Funds - $35,000.

Co-Principal Investigator - 1992-1995 (GL Murphy - Principal Investigator) - Molecular analysis of Pasteurella haemolytica major outer membrane proteins. USDA-NRI Competitive Grants Program - $230,000.

Principal Investigator - 1993-1995 - Characterization and immunologic significance of the 30 kDa OMP of Pasteurella haemolytica. AVMA Foundation - $15,000.

Principal Investigator - 1994-1996 - Outer membrane proteins in immunity to P. multocida serogroup A. OAES and Section 1433 Animal Health Formula Funds - $28,000.

Principal Investigator - 1996-1998 - DNA polymorphisms and plasmid profiles in bovine P. multocida isolates. OAES and Section 1433 Animal Health Formula Funds - $31,000.

Co-Investigator - 1994-1999 (KD Clinkenbeard - Principal Investigator) - Specificity of Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin binding. USDA-NRI Competitive Grants Program - $213,000.


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Co-Principal Investigator - 1995-1999 (GL Murphy - Principal Investigator) - Molecular analyses of P. haemolytica outer membrane proteins. USDA-NRI Competitive Grants Program - $240,000.

Co-Principal Investigator - 1996-1999 (JW Wyckoff - Principal Investigator) - Effector T lymphocytes provide host defense in bovine brucellosis. USDA-NRI Competitive Grants Program - $146,000.

Principal Investigator - 1994-1999 - Development of an effective immunizing agent against Pasteurella haemolytica infection in cattle. Diamond Animal Health - $257,000.

Co-Principal Investigator - 1995-1999 (GL Murphy - Principal Investigator, DM Estes - Co-PI, Univ. Missouri) - Molecular analysis of Pasteurella haemolytica outer membrane proteins. OAES and Section 1433 Animal Health Formula Funds - $23,000

Principal Investigator - 1996-1999 - Immunity in cattle to the Pasteurella multocida 35 kDa OMP. American Veterinary Medical Foundation - $15,000.

Principal Investigator – 1999-2002 – Bovine Respiratory Disease: Field Studies of Immunity and Impact of Treatment. OKL02255. OAES and USDA 1433 Formula Funds - $164,989.

Co – Principal Investigator – (RW Fulton, PI) – 2001-2002 – Evaluation of viral vaccines containing infectious IBRV, BVDV, PI-3V and BRSV in preventing infection and respiratory disease in cattle. Fort Dodge, Fort Dodge, IA - $25,000

Co - Principal Investigator – (RW Fulton, PI) – 2000-2002 – Genetic and antigenic variability of BVDV in cattle infections. (AES 2276) - $20,000

Co-Principal Investigator - (RW Fulton, PI) - 2002-2003 – Vaccination of ranch calves with modified live viral vaccine: Effects on viral transmission on commingled and transported calves. Schering-Plough Animal Health Corp, Union, New Jersey - $25,000.

Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator – 1999-2005 – (RW Fulton, DL Step; Co-Principal Investigators) - Shipping Fever: New Approaches to Understanding, Prevention and Management. Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK - $2,400,000

Principal Investigator – 2003 - 2005 - Chimeric Vaccine for Mannheimia haemolytica Infection in Cattle. Oklahoma Applied Research Program. Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST - AR03(1)-14) . $259,395.

Co - Principal Investigator – (JW Ritchey, PI) – 2000-2004 - Genetic construction of bovine CD18 that resists P. haemolytica leukotoxin. USDA – NRI Competitive Grants Program (USDA Award No. 00-35204-9227) - $150,000

Principal Investigator – 2003 – 2005 - Evaluation of Mannheimia haemolytica and Pasteurella multocida vaccines. Fort Dodge Animal Health, Inc. $95,779.

Co-Principal Investigator – (CR Krehbiel, PI) – 2003-2005 – Influence of bovine respiratory disease on whole body protein utilization and hepatic acute phase protein response in stressed calves. USDA 1433 Animal Health Funds. $20,200

Principal Investigator – 2002 – 2006 – Mannheimia haemolytica outer membrane protein PlpE: Characterization of epitopes stimulating homologous and heterologous serotype protection. USDA CSREES, National Research Initiative Competitive Grant. (Grant # 2002-02232) - $290,000

Principal Investigator – 2004-2006 - Characterization of the role of leukotoxin in the stimulation of the host response to Mannheimia haemolytica infection in experimental shipping fever. USDA 1433 Animal Health Funds. $23,400.

Principal Investigator – 2006 – 2008 - A Chimeric Vaccine for Bovine Shipping Fever Pneumonia. OCAST Applied Research Support Program (ARO61-202). $300,000

Principal Investigator – 2005 – 2008 - Economic Development for Oklahoma Cattle Producers through Applied Animal Health Studies and Modern Vaccine Discovery and Production. Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK - $1,200,000.

Principal Investigator – 2006 – 2009 - Immunoproteomic Approach to Identify and Characterize Immunologically Important Mannheimia haemolytica Outer Membrane Proteins. USDA -CSREES, National Research Initiative Competitive Grant. (Grant # 2006-01684) - $375,000

Principal Investigator – 2007-2009 – Mannheimia haemolytica vaccine development. Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. $117,000


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Co-Principal Investigator (J. Taylor, Co-PI) – 2010 – 2012. Comparison of Mannheimia haemolytica isolates from cattle in Australia with U.S. isolates. Pfizer Animal Health, Kalamazoo, MI & Australia - $75,419

Principal Investigator – 2009 – 2013 - Mannheimia haemolytica chimeric protein vaccine for delivery of multiple outer membrane protein and leukotoxin antigens. USDA-CSREES, AFRI Competitive Grant (Grant # 2009-01626) - $375,000

Principal Investigator – 2013-2014 - Development of a Mannheimia haemolytica model for studying RecA inhibitors. Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK - $88,384

Principal Investigator - 1997-2013 - Mannheimia haemolytica Bacterin-Toxoid Efficacy Studies. Pfizer Animal Health, Kalamazoo, MI - $676,544

Project Director – 2014-2015 - Zuprevo® 18% Competitive 5-day Histophilus somni Challenge Study. Merck Animal Health. $89,224

Project Director and Principal Investigator - 1981-2016 (RJ Panciera, RW Fulton: Co-Principal Investigators) - Bovine Respiratory Disease Project - Funded by Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station and USDA Formula Funds, OAES #2597 ~$15,000 per year.

PRESENT FUNDED RESEARCH

Project Leader - 2016 - present (Clint Jones & Jared Taylor: Co-Project Leaders) - Bovine respiratory

disease: A multicentric approach to understanding pathogenesis and immunity. Funded by Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station and USDA Formula Funds, Project OKL0340 ~$15,000 per year.

Project Director – Richard Hanson (SolidTech Animal Health), Co-Directors – AW Confer & S Ayalew. Mannheimia haemolytica outer membrane vesicle-based vaccine for Shipping Fever in cattle. USDA Phase I SBIR Program. $100,000

Project Director – 2015 – present: Zuprevo®

18% Competitive Histophilus somni Challenge Study 2. Merck Animal Health, $74,218

Co-PI – Blake Wilson, Department of Animal Science, Project Director. Evaluation of Bloplex'" organic trace minerals on clinical signs, immune response variables, and mineral balance in calves following natural exposure to bovine viral diarrhea virus type 1 and subsequent Mannheimia haemolytica infection. Alltech. $90,679.

EQUIPMENT GRANTS

Co-Principal Investigator with K. D. Clinkenbeard – 1997-1998 - Automated microbial fermentation

system for enhancement of bovine research. USDA NRI Competitive Grants Program, AREA 80.2 Equipment Grant - $43,000. Matched by State Regents for Higher Education - Total $86,000.

INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS

Director – 2000 – 2001 – Short-term Research Training for Health Professionals. National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources. Grant # 2 T35 RR07061. $239,393. (Turned over directorship to Dr. Jerry Malayer in fall 2001 when he became Assoc. Dean for Research)

PATENTS

Principal Inventor - Mannheimia haemolytica Outer Membrane Protein as a Vaccine or Vaccine Component for Shipping Fever. U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/422,305. OSU Ref. 2002.08; U.S. Utility Patent Application No. 11/235,982, U.S. Patent No. 7,144,580, granted December 6, 2006.

Co-Inventor (S. Ayalew, Principal Inventor) – Mannheimia haemolytica Chimeric outer membrane protein PlpE and Leukotoxin Epitopes as a Vaccine or Vaccine Component Against Shipping


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Fever. Provisional Application Serial No. 60/757,342 filed 1/9/06; U.S. Patent No. 7,794,734 B2, granted September 14, 2010.

FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES

LSU - School of Veterinary Medicine Courses and Curriculum Committee - 1979-1981 Clinical Immunology Research Unit Committee - 1979-1981 Ad hoc Review Committee - Department of Epidemiology and Community Health - 1981 Clinical Diagnostic Services Committee - 1980

OSU - College of Veterinary Medicine

Research Advisory Committee - 1981-1982, 1983-1985; Chair - 1984-1985; ex officio – 1999 - 2001

Curriculum Committee - 1982-1986 (Chair, 1986); 1992-1995; 2004 – 2005; 2009-2011; 2014-present, (Chair, 2009-2010)

Promotion and Reappointment Committee - 1985-1986; 2003 - 2005 Preceptorship Committee - 1986 Honors and Awards Committee – 1986 -1988 Admissions - 1987-1989, 1996 - 1999 Professional Standards – 1987 - 1991; Chair, 1988 -1989 Space Committee – 1986 - present Veterinary Administration Council – 1986 - 2001 Department Heads/Class Representative Liaison – 1988 – 1999, 2004 - present; Chair, 1988-

1989, 1993 -1994, 1996 –1997, 1998 – 1999, 2004-2005, 2005-2006 Biotechnology Building Planning Committee – 1988 -1990 Pew Foundation Planning Committee – 1988 -1989 Graduate Education Committee – 1989 -1990 Social Committee - 1991-1996; Chair, 1992 -1993 Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Search Committee - Chair, 1991-1992; 1996-1997 Recruitment and Retention Committee - 1991-1992 Resources Reallocation Committee – 1992 -1993 College Administrative Review Committee - 1994 Food Animal Research Park Development Committee – 1996 -1998 Ad hoc Curriculum Development Committee – 1996 -1997 Curriculum Implementation Committee - 1997- 1998

Neurology Course Development Committee - 1997-1998, Chair Dept. Head, Department of Clinical Sciences Search Committee – 1998 College Executive Committee – 1999- 2001 Continuing Education Committee – 2001 – 2003 College Strategic Planning Committee – 2003 - 2004, Chair

Graduate Review Advisory Committee – 2008 – 2009, Chair Veterinary Faculty Council – 2008-2011, Chair 2010-2011

- Department of Veterinary Pathology

Ad hoc Committee - Residency document - Chair - 1982 Ad hoc Committee - Graduate education document - 1983 Ad hoc Committee - Joint appointments - Chair - 1984 Standing Committee - Department Future - 1984-1986 Department Head Search Committee - Chair – 1985

- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology Anatomic Pathology Resident Coordinator – 2001-2004 Graduate Course Development Committee – 2010, Chair Chair, Strategic Planning Committee - 2016


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- University University Committee on Biotechnology - 1984-1987 University Centennial Advisory Commission - 1987 President Search Committee - 1987-1988 Strategic Planning Council - 1991-1992

- Subcommittee on Goals and Objectives - Vice Chair - 1991-1992 University Advisory Council on Multicultural Affairs - 1993 Executive Vice President Search Committee - 1995-1996 Sigma XI, Chapter Lecturer Screening Committee - 1994-1996, Chair - 1996 Faculty Council Dispute Resolution Committee, Dept. of Music – 1997 Regents Distinguished Teaching Award Committee – 1998 Academic Department Heads Advisory Council – 1986 – 1999 Research Council – 1999 – 2001 Eminent Faculty Award Committee – 2000 – 2001, Chair – 2004, 2012 Research Initiatives Council – 2000 - 2001 Infectious Diseases & Food Safety Focus Group – 2000-2001, Chair OSU System Strategic Planning Steering Committee – 2003-2004 North Central Association Reaccreditation Committee – 2003–2004, Chair – Criterion II

subcommittee – 2003 – 2004 Regents Professor Selection Committee – 2010 – 2012 Strategic Planning Implementation Task Force – 2011 Regents Professor Executive Committee – 2010 – 2012, Vice Chair – 2011-2012, Chair

2012-2013 Promotion and Tenure Review Task Force – 2011-2012 Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer - Search Committee, – 2013-2014 Food-Energy-Water Nexus Council – 2016 - present.

- College of Arts and Sciences

Molecular Biologist Search Committee – 1988

- Division of Agriculture Associate Director, Agricultural Experiment Station - Search Committee - 1989 Beef Cattle Research Facility - Development Committee - 1993-1994 Director and Assistant Vice President of the Agriculture Experiment Station – Search

Committee – 2014-2015

GRADUATE COMMITTEES LSU - School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathology

PhD - George Sandusky, DVM - committee member - completed Dec. 1980 PhD - Charles Johnson, DVM - committee member - completed Dec. 1981 MS – Dan Lochner, DVM – committee member – completed Dec. 1982

OSU - College of Veterinary Medicine, former Department of Infectious Disease and Physiology Research/Thesis Advisor

PhD - Martha Gentry, MS - committee member and dissertation advisor - completed May 1984

MS - René Simons, BS - committee member and thesis advisor - completed, May 1990 PhD - Rebecca Morton, DVM, MS - committee member and dissertation advisor -

completed Dec. 1993 Committee Member

MS - John Rummage, BS - program terminated PhD - Siao-Kum Wan, DVM, MS - completed Dec. 1985


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PhD - Penchan Charanasomboon, DVM, MS - completed, Dec. 1984 PhD - Louis Perino, DVM - completed, July, 1989 MS - Anna Likos-Burkhart - program terminated PhD - William Chou, MS - program terminated MS - Ginger Daniel, BS - program terminated

OSU - College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Botany and Microbiology MS - Sally Weldon - committee member - completed, Dec. 1987

OSU - College of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Pathobiology & Veterinary Biomedical Sciences

Programs Committee Chair

PhD – Dan Lochner, DVM, MS – program terminated PhD - Derek Mosier, DVM, MS - completed, Aug. 1985 PhD - S. Mark Hall, DVM - completed, Dec. 1986 MS - Susan Antone, DVM - completed, Dec. 1986 PhD - Gladstone Dzata, DVM, MS - completed, July 1989 MS - Parameshwar J. Mahasreshti, BVSc - completed, May 1996; Recipient of University

Graduate Research Excellence Award PhD - Nick Gatto, DVM – completed, December 2000 PhD – Maria Prado, DVM – completed, December 2003 MS – Jordan Hammer (concurrent DVM enrollment) – program terminated PhD – Kuldeep Singh, BVSC, MS – completed December 2007 PhD – Jared Taylor, DVM, MPH – completed December 2008

Committee Member

MS - Saree Donkaewbua, DVM - completed, Sept. 1983 PhD - Robert Engelman, DVM - completed, Dec. 1985 PhD - Ronald Tyler, DVM - completed, May 1986 PhD - Daniel Paulsen, DVM, MS - dissertation advisor - completed, May 1989 MS - Barbara Waurzyniak, DVM - completed, Dec. 1991 PhD - Chandikumar Elangbam, DVM - completed, May 1990 PhD - Karamjeet Pandher, BVSc - completed, March 1998 PhD - Yude Sun, DVM, MS – completed, May 1999 PhD - Hui Zeng, MS – completed, Dec. 1999 PhD - Jun Li, MS – completed, Dec. 1999 PhD – Sharon Ore, MS – program terminated MS – Amit Dewan, DVM – completed, May 2005 PhD - Hemant Naikare, BVSc, MVSc – completed, May 2005 PhD – Sharla Birch, concurrent DVM enrollment, program terminated PhD – Sunil More, BVSc, MVSc – Completed May 2016

OSU - Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences – Committee member

PhD – Vivienne Duggan, MVB, DACVIM – Completed Dec. 2006 MS – James T. Giles, DVM – Completed May 2007 MS – Michelle Franklin, DVM – Completed May 2008 PhD – Charles Broaddus, DVM, DACT – Completed February 2011

OSU - College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, Department of Animal Science

PhD - Jeff Carter, MS - committee member – completed, December 2000 PhD - Brent Berry, MS – committee member – completed, December 2001 MS – Ben Holland – committee member – completed May 2006 PhD – Luis Robles – committee member – completed January 2009 PhD – Rod Mills – committee member – completed July 2011


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UNDERGRADUATE HONORS THESIS ADVISEMENT

2nd Reader, thesis, Heather Akridge, BS, Biochemistry, 2003 – Diversity and relationships among the OmpA genes of P. multocida ribotype groups.

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLAR MENTOR

Niblack Undergraduate Scholar Mentor – Jody Sovo, Animal Science/Pre veterinary option –

Mucosal immune response to M. haemolytica PlpE/LKT chimeric protein. 2004-2005 Niblack Undergraduate Scholar Mentor – Clayton Smith, Animal Science/Pre veterinary option –

Immunity to Pasteurella multocida following intranasal vaccination. 2005-2006 Native Americans for Biological Sciences Careers – Brandon Trojan, Animal Science/Pre-Medicine

option – 2005-2006. NIH – SPONSORED, SHORT – TERM RESEARCH TRAINING

Arden Gillespie – 2000 - Intranasal Vaccination of Rabbits with P. multocida Iron-Regulated Outer

Membrane Proteins and Cholera-toxin Subunit B. Emily Blackwood (Co-mentor with Sahlu Ayalew) – 2002 - Molecular and Immunological Analysis

of Outer Membrane Protein PlpE from Mannheimia haemolytica serotypes 1, 2, and 6. Kyla Stevens – 2005 (Co-mentor with Sahlu Ayalew) - Functional antibody responses of mice to

immunization with a M. haemolytica PlpE-LKT chimeric protein. Geoff Tucker – 2007 –(Co-mentor with Sahlu Ayalew) Cloning, expression, purification, and

immunological evaluation of the M. haemolytica outer membrane protein OmpD15. Thomas Wilson – 2007 – Mucosal antibodies to Actinobacillus equuli in mares. Jeff Skaggs – 2008 – Immune response to Actinobacillus equuli outer membrane proteins and Aqx

toxin in horses. Betsy Kriner – 2011 (Co-mentor with Sahlu Ayalew) - Recombinant Mannheimia haemolytica IgA

Protease. MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION – SUMMER VETERINARY STUDENT FELLOWSHIP

Jeff Skaggs – 2009 – Development of an Actinobacillus equuli Vaccine for Pregnant Mares.

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

Supervisor, Histotechnology Laboratory - 1981-1982 Supervisor, Respiratory Disease Research Laboratory - 1981-present Supervisor, Brucellosis Research Laboratory - 1982-1992 Department Head - Department of Veterinary Pathology, June 1, 1986 - April 14, 1996

- Departmental Personnel:13-14 tenure-track faculty, 22-25 staff, 3-10 graduate students - General Responsibilities -

Development/implementation of a Departmental 5-year plan - 1986-1989 Development, implementation, and tracking of a Departmental Strategic Plan - 1989-1996 Departmental maintenance budget management Recruitment of six faculty members Annual faculty and staff appraisal, development, and salary recommendations General manager for all departmental resources Voting member of Veterinary Administrative Council

Department Head - Department of Anatomy, Pathology and Pharmacology, April 15, 1996 – Feb. 1,

1999 - Departmental Personnel: 21 tenure-track faculty, 2 non tenure-track faculty, 27 staff, 23

graduate students


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- Coordinated reorganization of Departments of Pathology and part of Physiological Sciences into the Department of Anatomy, Pathology and Pharmacology

Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education – Jan. 1, 1999 – Aug. 1, 2001

Supervise – CVM Director of Graduate Studies Office Staff of 3 administrative and professional staff - General responsibilities for overseeing college research budget, providing leadership and

administration for research and graduate programs, and functioning as a faculty member of the college.

- Voting member of the College Executive Committee and Administrative Council. - Representative of the College to the AAVMC Research Directors meetings. - College representative to University Research Council and Research Directors’ meetings. - Director of NIH-sponsored Short-term Research Training Program for veterinary students.

Coordinator: Anatomic Pathology – August 2001 – 2004

- Coordinate residency training for 3 pathology residents - Schedule necropsy and biopsy duty for residents and faculty - Liaison with Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory

Department Head – Veterinary Pathobiology – February 2004 – July 2008

Departmental Personnel - 40 Faculty 17 Staff 20 Graduate students 5 Post doctoral fellows 5 Pathology residents

ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS AND STUDIES

- OSU-CVM AVMA accreditation self study - 1987 - Authored reports on Curriculum, and the

Department of Veterinary Pathology - Report on Review of the College Computer Advisory Committee - 1988 - A report to the State Regents for Higher Education - "An In Depth Self Study of the Department of

Veterinary Pathology" - 1988 - Author, developer, and coordinator for a joint graduate program in Molecular Pathogenesis and

Immunity (3 department option) - 1990, unapproved - Author of Student Development Program Grant Proposal - submitted to Pew National Veterinary

Medical Education Phase IV Program $220,000 - submitted 1989 - not funded - Author of a study of admissions criteria for and success in the College of Veterinary Medicine -

1989 - Submitted to Dean, January 1990 - Department of Veterinary Pathology Equipment Request document - 1989 - submitted to the OSU

Foundation and numerous industrial firms - Chairman - Committee for Review of the Veterinary Anatomy Courses, Report submitted, April,

1990 - Developer and overseer of a program to continually track admissions criteria and their relation to

academic performance - 1991-1996. - Coordinator of Economic Impact Study for the College of Veterinary Medicine - 1992 - Coordinated development of College formulae for faculty teaching and service activities - 1992 - Reported analysis of 5 years of admissions data to Admissions Committee and Veterinary

Administrative Council - 1992 - Developed Safety Guidelines for Necropsy Room - 1992 - Developed and filed Departmental Affirmative Action Plan - 1992 - Co-Developer of plan to consolidate necropsy and biopsy services, OADDL-CVM - 1992-1993 - Report on analysis of admission criteria and first-year academic performance for the class of 1996

presented to Admissions Committee - 1993 - Report on analysis of influence of undergraduate degrees on first-year academic performance,

classes of 1991-1993 presented to Admissions Committee, 1994


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- Coordinated Report on External Review of Department of Veterinary Pathology. Iowa State University, 1994

- Report on vertical review of the Urinary System throughout the CVM curriculum - Chaired committee and reported to Curriculum Committee, 1994

- Coordinator of Curriculum Self Study, Oklahoma State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, AVMA Accreditation, 1995

- Coordinator of Self Study on the Department of Veterinary Pathology for Oklahoma State Regents, 1994-1995

- Report on Department of Veterinary Pathology Self Study, AVMA Accreditation, 1995 - Coordinated development of Standard Rules of Procedure document for Standing Education

Committee, ACVP, 1996 - Coordinated renovation of departmental research and teaching laboratories and College Student

Lounge, 1995-1996 - Coordinated development of a Bovine Infectious Disease Isolation Facility, 1997- 1998 - Developed Outcomes Assessment Questionnaire for comparison of student perception of their

education in the old and new curriculum, 1997 – 1998 - Coordinated strategic planning for Department, 1998 - Chaired search for Endowed Chair in Toxicology and oversaw renovations of research laboratory to

accompany the position, 1998 - Report to Admissions Committee on pre-veterinary predictors and academic performance for the

class of 2001, 1998 - Report to Admissions Committee on predictors of academic performance based on selectivity of

pre-veterinary institutions attended, 1998 - 5-year review of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program. Report to the Oklahoma

Regents for Higher Education. 2001 - Review of distribution of indirect cost funds within the college and with the Vice President of

Research – 2001 - CVM Strategic Plan – Chair of Planning Committee – 2003 -2004 - Review and Recommendations of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Review –

Committee Chair - 2008-2009 - Department of Veterinary Pathobiology Strategic Plan. 2016

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Manuscript reviewer - American Journal of Experimental

Agriculture - American Journal of Physiology - American Journal of Veterinary Research - Applied and Environmental Microbiology - Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae

Experimentalis - Avian Disease - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - BMC Veterinary Research - Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research - Canadian Veterinary Journal - Clinical and Diagnostic Immunology - Clinical and Vaccine Immunology - Clinical Microbiology Reviews - Comparative Immunology Microbiology and

Infectious Diseases

- FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

- Infection and Immunity - Journal of Animal Science - Journal of Bacteriology - Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology - Journal of Clinical Microbiology - Journal of the American Veterinary Medical

Association - Journal of Medical Mycology - Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic

Investigation - Journal of Veterinary Science - Journal of Wildlife Diseases Microbiology - Microbial Pathogenesis - Microbiological Reviews - Microbios


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- Pathology Research International - Research in Veterinary Science - Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal

Sciences - Vaccine - Veterinari Medicina (Vet Med – Czech)

- Veterinary Clinical Pathology - Veterinary Immunology and Immuno-

pathology - Veterinary Medicine - Veterinary Medicine International

- Veterinary Pathology - Veterinary Research Journal of Veterinary Medicine – Series A; Clinical and Vaccine

Immunology - Veterinary Research Communications Book Proposal Review – Pathology technique book, Wiley-Blackwell, Inc. 2014 Book Chapter Review – Chapter on Pasteurellosis in Prescott J & Giles C (Eds); Pathogenesis of

Bacterial Infections in Animal, 2010 Editorial Boards - Veterinary Pathology: 1988-1990; 1995-1997; 2005-2007 - American Journal of Veterinary Research: 1985-1987; 1993-1995; 1996 - 1998; 1999-2001,

2002-2004, 2006-2008 - Veterinary Medicine (Vet Med – Czech): 2006 – present - Journal of Vaccines and Vaccination: 2010 – 2013 - Clinical and Vaccine Immunology: 2013 – 2015, 2016-2018 - Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation: 2016 - 2019

Scientific Advisory Board • Morris Animal Foundation - 1991-1995

Advisory Board - USDA AFRI CAP grant for Bovine Respiratory Disease – 2012 - 2016 Panel Manager - USDA NRI, Competitive Grants

- Panel B - Animal Protection and Biosecurity – 2006-2008 External PhD Examiner • MH Al-Haddawi – ”Pathogenicity of Pasteurella multocida serotypes A:3, D:1 and D:3 in rabbits.”

University Putra, Malaysia, 1999 • Yu Pan – “An investigation of Histophilus somni virulence factors in pathogenesis and diagnosis.”

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 2014 External Assessor for Promotion and Reappointment • University Putra Malaysia, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 2001-2004 • Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Office of the Registrar, 2008-2016 • North American colleges of veterinary medicine including:

- Washington State University - University of Guelph, Ontario

Veterinary College - Colorado State University - University of Missouri - Mississippi State University - University of Georgia

- University of Illinois - Iowa State University - Auburn University - University of Wisconsin - Texas A&M University - University of California, Davis - University of Tennessee

External DVSc Examiner • MH Al-Haddawi – ”The effect of bovine viral diarrhea virus and lipopolysaccharide on the

expression of defensins and secretion of lactoferrin in bovine tracheal epithelial cells” University of Guelph, Ontario Veterinary College, 2006

Peer Grant Review Panels: - Oklahoma Affiliate, American Heart Association - 1986-1989 - USDA Special Grants, Bovine Respiratory Disease Section - 1990


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• USDA NRI, Competitive Grants, Molecular and Cellular Basis of Animal Disease Program - 1991, 1992

• USDA NRI, AREA Program, Strengthening Awards – 1998, 1999 • USDA NRI, Competitive Grants, Animal Protection Program – 2003, 2004, 2005 • USDA AFRI, Competitive Grants Panel, 2011

Ad hoc Grant Reviewer • Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) - 1988, 1990-1993,

1994, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2004 • EPSCOR, North Dakota - 1988 • USDA - Special Grants - 1988 • USDA NRI, Competitive Grants Program - 1985-1989, 1991, 1993 - 2001 • USDA - Small Business Innovation Research Program – 1995 – 2001, 2005 - 2007 • Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Austrian Science Fund), Austria – 2000 • USDA ARS project plans - Brucellosis Project and Bovine Respiratory Disease Project – 2001 • NIH/National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases – Study section: "Impact of Microbial

Interactions on Infectious Diseases" [AI-02-008] – R21 grants - 2002 • Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, Beef Cattle Research Council – 2001, 2006 • The Wellcome Trust, London, UK – 2005, 2010 • Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn University – 2005 • NSF – Microbial Genome Sequencing Program – 2006 • Innovation Institute of Ontario, Canada – 2006 • OMAFRA/U of Guelph Bioproducts Research Areas, Canada – 2007 • USDA-AFRI CAP Program – 2010 • Binational Agricultural Research Development Fund (BARD) – 2010 • OMAFRA/U of Guelph Bioproducts Research Areas, Canada – 2011

Professional Consultant • Baxter Healthcare Corp., Round Lake, Ill, 1988-1989 • Veterinary Reference Laboratory, Dallas, TX, 1988-1989 • Fort Dodge Laboratories, Ft. Dodge, IA, 1987-1993 • SmithKline, Beecham Laboratories, Lincoln, NE, 1991 • Diamond Animal Health, Des Moines, IA, 1994-1998 • SolidTech Animal Health, Inc., Newcastle, OK, 2004 - 2008 • Boehringer-Ingelheim Animal Health, St. Joseph, MO, 2007 – 2009 • Pfizer Animal Health, Lincoln, NE, 1998 – present • BRD project, USDA-ARS, National Animal Disease Center, Ames, IA, 2011-2016 • BRD project, USDA-ARS, US Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, NE, 2011-2016

Service to National Organizations

National Phi Zeta − Awards Committee, 2001-2005, Chair, 2004-2005

American College of Veterinary Pathologists • Committee on Role Delineation, 1989 • Program Chair, “Molecular Pathology of Bacterial Infection”, Annual Meeting, 1995 • Standing Education Committee - 1994-1996 (Founding Committee Chair), Chair 1994-1996 • Co-nominator and co-presenter with Dr. Jerry Ritchey, of Dr. Roger Panciera for Distinguished

Member of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists – 2006 • Education Committee – 2013 - 2014 American Society for Microbiology Public and Scientific Affairs Board - Committee on Agriculture

and Food, 2006-2007. Assisted in writing ASM response to USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service proposal to allow Brucellosis research to be conducted in Brucellosis-free states.

Testified before U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry - "Technological Advances and Other Measures Leading to the


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Complete Eradication of Brucellosis - The Past, Present, and Future". Sept 23, 1989. Published in Serial No. 101-51, US Government Printing Office 1990, pp. 109-114.

Service to other organizations - Search committee member, Research Leader, Bovine Respiratory Disease/Genomics,

USDA ARS, Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, NE, 2011 Invited Scientific Speaker: • AmGen Corporation, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1984 • 124th Annual Meeting, American Veterinary Medical Association, 1987 • 107th Annual Meeting, Iowa Veterinary Medical Association, 1989 • Annual product development meeting, Fort Dodge Laboratories, Ft. Meyers, FL, 1989 • International Conference on Haemophilus, Actinobacillus, and Pasteurella, Guelph, Canada, 1989 • Annual Meeting, Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association, Stillwater, OK, 1990 • International Workshop on Pasteurellosis in Production Animals, Australian Centre for International

Agricultural Research, Bali, Indonesia, 1992 (unable to attend due to illness) • Conference on Characterization and Quantification of Immunogens in Veterinary Biologics, Ames,

IA, 1992 • International Conference on Haemophilus, Actinobacillus, and Pasteurella, Edinburgh, Scotland,

1994 • Annual meeting, American Association of Bovine Practitioners, Pittsburgh, PA, 1994 • Annual meeting, Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association, Tulsa, OK, 1997 • Annual meeting, American Veterinary Medical Association, Reno, NV, 1997 • Pfizer Animal Health, Lincoln, NE, 1999 • 17th Symposium, Veterinary Comparative Respiratory Society, Harrison Hot Springs, B.C., Canada,

1999 • Annual meeting, American College of Veterinary Pathologists, Amelia Island, Florida, 2000 • Annual meeting, Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association, Oklahoma City, OK, 2002 • Annual Technical Services meeting, Intervet, Inc. Marco Island, FL, 2003 • ASAS/ADSA Midwestern Regional Conference, Des Moines, IA, 2003 • Annual meeting, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Charlotte, NC, 2003 – Food

Animal Forum • Annual meeting, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Charlotte, NC, 2003 –

Veterinary Comparative Respiratory Society Forum on Bacterial Pathogenesis. • Annual meeting, American Association of Bovine Practitioners, Special Beef Cattle session.

Columbus, OH, 2003 • Annual summer seminar meeting, Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association, Stillwater, OK, 2005 • Annual meeting, American Association of Bovine Practitioners, Salt Lake City, UT 2005 • Veterinary meetings sponsored by Pfizer, Billings, Bozeman, and Great Falls, MT,. 2005 • Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph,

Ontario, Canada, 2006 • Veterinary meeting sponsored by Pfizer, Salt Lake City, UT. 2006 • Veterinary meeting sponsored by Pfizer, Nashville, TN. 2006 • Schering-Plough, Omaha, NE, October 2006 • Joint meeting, Veterinary Comparative Respiratory Society and the Federal Research Institute for

Animal Health, Jena, Germany, Oct. 2006 • Veterinary meeting sponsored by Pfizer, Webster, SD 2007 • Boehringer-Ingelheim Animal Health Research Meeting, Ames, IA 2007 • Merial Animal Health, Marketing Meeting, Orlando, 2008 • International Society of Pasteurellaceae. Sorrento, Italy, 2008 • Comparative Respiratory Society Annual Meeting, Oklahoma City, OK, 2008 • BRD Symposium, CRWAD, Chicago, IL 2008 • American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Montreal, Canada, 2009 • Pfizer Animal Health, Kalamazoo, MI, 2009


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• BRD Symposium, sponsored by USDA CSREES Multistate Research Project NC-1027, Colorado Springs, CO, 2009

• Academy of Veterinary Consultants, Summer meeting, Colorado Springs, CO, 2009 • Louisiana State University, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Baton Rouge, LA, October

2009 • Bayer Animal Health, Feedlot Consultant Meetings, San Antonio, TX, April 2010 • Academy of Veterinary Consultants, Spring meeting, Oklahoma City, OK 2011 • Academy of Veterinary Consultants, Summer meeting, Colorado Springs, CO 2011 • USDA Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, NE 2011 • Keynote Speaker, Bovine Respiratory Disease Session, CRWAD, Chicago, IL 2012 • Canadian Society of Animal Science and the Alberta Meat and Livestock Agency symposium,

Banff, Alberta, Canada 2013 • ADSA®-ASAS-CSAS JOINT ANNUAL MEETING. 2014 Kansas City, MO • Academy of Veterinary Consultants, Summer meeting, Denver, CO, 2014 • College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia-Maryland Regional Veterinary College, Blacksburg, VA,

2014 • Zinpro Performance Minerals, Summer Research Training Meeting, Eden Prairie, MN, 2015 • OSU CVHS Fall Conference, Stillwater, OK 2016

National Planning Committees: • Southwest Regional Animal Biocontainment Research Facility for Animal Health and International

Trade, Texas A&M University - 1993-1995 • Animal Diseases and Human Health: EU and US Policy Dialogue – University of Missouri - 2002

Guest Moderator: - Guest Moderator, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Department of Veterinary Pathology,

Wednesday Slide Conference, October 24, 2007 External Review Teams:

- Department of Veterinary Pathology, Iowa State University. Review Team Chair, 1994 - Graduate Program, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, 2001 - Research Program, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, 2002 - Department of Veterinary Pathology, Iowa State University. 2005 - Graduate Program, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University. Review Team

Chair, 2009 VETERINARY EDUCATION JOURNAL ARTICLES

Confer AW: Analysis of Graduate Record Examination score and pre-admission grade point averages as predictors of academic performance in a college of veterinary medicine. J Vet Med Educ 17:56-62, 1990

Confer AW, Turnwald GH, Wollenburg DE: Correlation of objective and subjective admission criteria with first-year academic performance. J Vet Med Educ 20: 73-82, 1993.

Confer AW, Turnwald GH, Wollenburg DE: Influence of selectivity of pre-professional institutions on first year academic performance in a veterinary college. J Vet Med Educ 22:8-11, 1995.

Confer AW, Lorenz MD: Pre-professional institutional influence on predictors of first-year academic performance in a veterinary college. J Vet Med Educ 26:16-20, 1999.

BOOK CHAPTERS 1. Confer AW, Panciera RJ: The Urinary System. In Thomson RG (ed) Special Veterinary Pathology. BC

Decker, Inc, Ontario, pp 437-465, 1988. 2. Confer AW, Panciera RJ: The Urinary System. In Carlton WW and McGavin DM (eds) Thomson's

Special Veterinary Pathology, 2nd ed., Mosby-Year Book, Inc, Philadelphia. pp 209-246, 1995. 3. Confer AW: Shipping fever. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 8th ed, 1995.


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4. Confer AW, Clinkenbeard KD, Murphy GL: Pathogenesis and virulence of Pasteurella haemolytica in cattle: an analysis of current knowledge and future approaches. In Donachie W, Lainson FA, Hodgson JC (eds) Haemophilus, Actinobacillus and Pasteurella. Plenum, London, pp 51-62, 1995.

5. Confer AW, Clarke CR: Pasteurellosis in Cattle. In Howard JL and Smith R (eds). Current Veterinary Therapy: Food Animal Practice 4. W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, pp 369-372, 1999.

6. Confer AW, Panciera RJ: The Urinary System. In Carlton WW, McGavin DM and Zachary JF (eds) Thomson's Special Veterinary Pathology, 3rd ed., Mosby, Inc, St. Louis, pp 235-278, 2001.

7. Confer AW. Pasteurella haemolytica, Pasteurella multocida, and Haemophilus somnus. In Bovine Vaccines and Herd Vaccination Programs (Cortese V, chapter editor). In Smith BP, Large Animal Internal Medicine, 3rd ed., Mosby, Inc, St. Louis, pp 1418-1421, 2002.

8. Fulton RW, Ellis JA, Confer AW, Duhamel GE, Hjerpe CA, Songer JG, Mosier DA. Use of Biologics in the Prevention of Infectious Diseases. In Smith BP, Field Guide to Large Animal Internal Medicine, Mosby, Inc, St. Louis, pp 409 – 418, 2002.

9. Confer AW: Shipping fever. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 9th ed, 2002. 10. Newman SJ, Confer AW, Panciera RJ: The Urinary System. In McGavin DM & Zachary JF (eds).

Pathological Basis of Veterinary Disease, 4th edition, Mosby, Inc, St. Louis, pp. 613-690, 2006. 11. Confer AW. Use of biologics in the prevention of infectious diseases: Mannheimia (Pasteurella)

haemolytica, Pasteurella multocida, and Histophilus somni (Haemophilus somnus). In Bovine Vaccines and Herd Vaccination Programs (Cortese V, chapter editor). In Smith BP, Large Animal Internal Medicine, 4th ed., Mosby, Inc, St. Louis, pp. 1607 – 1610, 2009.

12. Step DL, Confer AW. Mannheimia haemolytica – and Pasteurella multocida – induced Bovine Pneumonia. In Anderson DE and Rings DM, eds., Current Veterinary Therapy: Food Animal Practice 5. Elsevier, St. Louis, pp. 164 – 170, 2009.

13. Taylor, JD, Confer AW. Large Animal Internal Medicine: Fifth Edition, B.P. Smith, Editor, Dr. V. Cortese, Section Editor, Vaccines. “Mannheimia haemolytica, Pasteurella multocida, Histophilus somni, and Bibersteinia trehalosi.”. pp 1477 – 1481, 2014

14. Breshears MA ,Confer AW. The Urinary System. In Zachary JF (ed). Pathological Basis of Veterinary Disease, 6th edition, Mosby, Inc, St. Louis, pp. 617-681, 2017

CONTINUING EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS 1. Confer AW, Reavis DU, Panciera RJ: Light and electron microscopic changes in cardiac and skeletal

muscle of sheep with experimental monensin toxicosis. In Novilla MN and Todd GC (eds), Monensin Diagnostic Manual. Elanco Products Co, Indianapolis, 1984.

2. Breider MA, Confer AW, Maheswaran SK (alphabetical order): Pasteurella haemolytica - Bovine Veterinary Forum, Vol 7, #1. Veterinary Learning Systems, Trenton (March 1992).

3. Charlet B, Woods M, Confer A: A profile of Oklahoma veterinarians. OVMA Communiqué 7(5): 3-6, 1993.

4. Carter JN, Stovall TC, Gill DR, Confer AW, Smith RA, Ball RL. Nutritional benefits of feeding a pelleted supplement manufactured from North Atlantic seaweed to transit-stressed feedlot cattle: Animal performance and medical costs. Okla Agric Exp Sta Res Rep, P-980, pp. 65-69, 2000.

5. Carter JN, Gill DR, Confer AW, Smith RA, Ball RL. The effects of feeding vitamin E to sale barn-origin calves during the receiving period: Animal performance and medical costs. Okla Agric Exp Sta Res Rep, P-980, pp. 70-75, 2000.

6. Confer AW. Pathogenesis of Bovine Bacterial Pneumonia. Proceedings ACVIM, 2003, Food Animal Forum pp. 193

7. Prado ME, Confer AW. Pasteurella multocida: From virulence factors to potential immunogens. Proceedings ACVIM, 2003, Food Animal Forum pp. 194

8. Confer AW. Actinobacillus equuli virulence factors and host immunity; lessons from its bovine cousin. Proceedings ACVIM, Charlotte, NC, 2003 – Comparative Respiratory Society Forum on bacterial pathogenesis. 2003, pp. 187 - 189

9. Confer AW. Manage shipping fever by vaccinating for pneumonia causing bacteria like Mannheimia haemolytica.. Bovine Health Watch. AgriLabs, Winter 2006, pp. 16

10. Confer AW. Comparative Pathology of and Pathogenic Mechanisms in Bovine Bacterial Pneumonia. Proceedings, ACVIM, Montreal, June 2009, pp. 257-259


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11. Confer AW. Immunity against Mannheimia haemolytica: Current knowledge and New Approaches. Proceedings, ACVIM, Montreal, June 2009, pp. 260 - 261

12. Confer AW. Immunity to bacterial respiratory pathogens – Now What? Proceedings, Academy of Veterinary Consultants, Summer 2009, pp. 89-99

13. Fulton RW, Confer AW. Gold Standards for bovine respiratory disease diagnosis, Do they exist? Laboratory tests, the good, the bad and the ugly. Proceedings, Academy of Veterinary Consultants, Spring 2011, pp. 1 – 13

14. Confer AW. Mannheimia haemolytica Leukotoxin and Other RTX Toxins. Proceedings, Academy of Veterinary Consultants, Summer 2011, pp. 1-15

15. Confer AW. Bovine respiratory disease – predisposing factors for bacterial pneumonia. Proceedings, Society of Animal Science and the Alberta Meat and Livestock Agency symposium, Banff, Alberta, Canada 2013

16. Confer AW, Taylor JD. Pasteurella multocida in bovine respiratory disease: What we know and what we don’t know. Proceedings, Academy of Veterinary Consultants, Summer 2014

17. Confer AW. Respiratory disease management in livestock – New challenges and knowledge gaps. Proceedings ADSA®-ASAS-CSAS JOINT ANNUAL MEETING. 2014

18. Chien R & Confer AW. Amoebic meningoencephalitis in a dog. OADDL E-News, vol. 8, pg. 2, Spring 2017

BOOK REVIEWS

Vet Pathol 34:79-80, 1997 - Review of -- Ling GV (ed): Lower Urinary Tract Diseases of Dogs and Cats: Diagnosis, Medical Management, Prevention. 235 pg. book, Mosby-Yearbook, Inc, St Louis, MO, 1995.

Vet Pathol 41: 710, 2004 – Review of -- Cheville NF - Introduction to Veterinary Pathology, second edition, PC CD-ROM, Iowa State Press, Ames, IA, 2000

Vet Pathol 45: 280, 2008 - Review of – Mills SE - Histology for Pathologists, 3rd Edition.1272 pg. book, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia.

SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL ARTICLES 1. Confer AW, Ward BC: Spinal dysraphism: a congenital myelodysplasia in the Weimeraner. JAVMA

160:1423-1426, 1972.

2. Barros R, Confer AW: Autoimmune hemolytic anemia in a seven month old dog. Okla Vet 24:22-24, 1972.

3. Krakowka S, Confer A, Koestner A: Evidence for transplacental transmission of canine distemper virus: two case reports. Am J Vet Res 35:1251-1253, 1974.

4. Confer AW, Kahn DE, Koestner A, Krakowka S: Biological properties of a canine distemper virus isolate associated with demyelinating encephalomyelitis. Infect Immun 11:835-844, 1975.

5. Confer AW, Kahn DE, Koestner A, Krakowka S: Comparison of canine distemper virus strains: an electron microscopic study. Am J Vet Res 36:741-748, 1975.

6. Krakowka S, Olson R, Confer AW, Koestner A, McCullough B: Serologic response to canine distemper viral antigens in gnotobiotic dogs infected with R252- canine distemper virus. J Infect Dis 132:384-392, 1975.

7. Krieg RE, Wolcott JH, Confer A: Treatment of Mycobacterium ulcerans infection by hyperbaric oxygenation. Aviat, Space Environ Med 46:1241-1245, 1975.

8. Confer AW, Langloss JM, Cashell IG: Long-term survival of two cats with mastocytosis. JAVMA 172:160-161, 1978.

9. Confer AW, DePaoli A: Primary neoplasms of the nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, and nasopharynx in the dog: a report of 16 cases from the files of the AFIP. Vet Path 15:18-30, 1978.


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10. Bonney CH, Koch SA, Dice PF, Confer AW: Papillomatosis of conjunctiva and adnexa in dogs. JAVMA 176:48-51, 1980.

11. Bonney CH, Koch SA, Confer AW, Dice PF. A case report: a conjunctivocorneal papilloma with evidence of a viral etiology. J Small Anim Pract 21:183-188, 1980.

12. Confer AW, Adldinger HK: Cell-Mediated immunity in Marek's Disease: cytotoxic responses in resistant and susceptible chickens and relation to disease. Am J Vet Res 41:307-312, 1980.

13. Confer AW, Adldinger HK, Buening GN: Cell-mediated immunity in Marek's Disease: correlation of disease related variables with immune responses in age-resistant chickens. Am J Vet Res 41:313-318, 1980.

14. Confer AW, Ward BC, Hines FA: Arsanilic acid toxicity in rabbits. Lab Ani Sci 30: 234-236, 1980.

15. Lindsey WA, Confer AW, Ochoa R: Ileal smooth muscle hypertrophy and rupture in a horse. Eq Vet J 13:66-67, 1981.

16. Confer AW, Adldinger HK: The in vivo effect of levamisole on phytohemagglutinin stimulation of lymphocytes in normal and Marek's Disease virus inoculated chickens. Res Vet Sci 30:243-245, 1981.

17. Confer AW, Cox HU, Kleinpeter CC, MacWilliams PS, Hawk WC: Disseminated nocardiosis in an Arabian foal. JAVMA 179:481-483, 1981.

18. Confer AW, Enright FM, Beard GB: Ultrastructure of a feline extraskeletal giant cell tumor (malignant fibrous histiocytoma). Vet Path 18:738-744, 1981.

19. Confer AW, Springer WT, Shane SM, Donovan JF: Sequential mitogen stimulation of peripheral blood lymphocytes from chickens inoculated with infectious bursal disease virus. Am J Vet Res 42:2109-2113, 1981.

20. Gaunt PS, Confer AW, Carter JD, Trucksa RC, Neafie RC, Lichtenfels J: Intraocular strongyloidiasis in a dog. J Amer Ani Hosp Assoc 18:120-123, 1982.

21. Ochoa R, Henk WG, Confer AW, Pirie GS: Herpesviral pneumonia and septicemia in two infant baboons. J Med Primatol 11:52-58, 1982.

22. Pavletic MM, Nafe LA, Confer AW: Mucocutaneous subdermal plexus flap for lower eyelid restoration in the dog. JAVMA 180:921-926, 1982.

23. Confer AW, MacWilliams PS: Correlation of hematological changes and serum and monocyte inhibition with the early suppression of phytohemagglutinin stimulation of lymphocytes in experimental infectious bursal disease. Can J Comp Med 46:169-175, 1982.

24. Corstvet RE, Gentry MJ, Newman PR, Rummage JA, Confer AW: The demonstration of age-dependent capsular material on Pasteurella haemolytica serotype 1. J Clin Microbiol 16:1123-1126, 1982.

25. Confer AW, Qualls CW, MacWilliams PS, Root CR: Four cases of pulmonary nodular eosinophilic granulomatosis in dogs. Cornell Vet. 73:41-51, 1983.

26. Ruhr LP, Nicholson SS, Confer AW, Blakewood BW: Acute intoxication from a hematinic in calves. JAVMA 182:616-618, 1983.

27. Confer AW, Fox JC, Newman PR, Lawson GW, Corstvet RE: A quantitative fluorometric assay for the measurement of antibody to Pasteurella haemolytica in cattle. Can J Comp Med 47:37-42, 1983.

28. Mosier DA, Engelman RW, Confer AW, McCarroll GD: Bilateral multiple congenital ocular defects in quarterhorse foals. Eq Vet J Supple 2:18-20, 1983.

29. Zimmer MA, Confer AW, Reavis DU, Tyler RD, Gordon BE: Osteolipomatoid polyps in the bronchi of a cougar. Vet Path 20:494-496, 1983.


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30. Confer AW, Reavis DU, Panciera RJ: Light and electron microscopic changes in cardiac and skeletal muscle of sheep with experimental monensin toxicosis. Vet Path 20:590-602, 1983.

31. Confer AW, Corstvet RE, Panciera RJ: Isolation of Pasteurella haemolytica and correlation with serum antibody response in clinically normal beef calves. Vet Microbiol 8:601-610, 1983.

32. Confer AW, Wright JC, Cummins JM, Panciera RJ, Corstvet RE: Use of a fluorometric immunoassay to determine antibody response to Pasteurella haemolytica in vaccinated and nonvaccinated feedlot cattle. J Clin Microbiol 18:866- 871, 1983.

33. Confer AW, Buening GM, Espe BH, Smith RA: Antibody responses of heifers vaccinated with reduced doses of Brucella abortus strain 19. Bovine Pract 18:174-178, 1983.

34. Panciera RJ, Corstvet RE, Confer AW, Gresham CN: Bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis: effect of vaccination with live Pasteurella species. Am J Vet Res 45:2538-2542, 1984.

35. Confer AW, Panciera RJ, Corstvet RE, Rummage JA, Fulton RW: Bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis: effect of culture age of Pasteurella haemolytica used as a live vaccine. Am J Vet Res 45:2543-2545, 1984.

36. Gresham CN, Confer AW, Bush LJ, Rummage JA: Serum and colostrum antibody to Pasteurella species in dairy cattle. Am J Vet Res 45:2227-2230, 1984.

37. Confer AW, Panciera RJ, Fulton RW: Effect of prior natural exposure to Pasteurella haemolytica on experimental bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis. Am J Vet Res 45:2622-2624, 1984.

38. Hall SM, Confer AW, Tabatabai LB, Deyoe BL: Detection of serum antibody to Brucella abortus in cattle by use of a quantitative fluorometric immunoassay. J Clin Microbiol 20:1023-1027, 1984.

39. Confer AW, Panciera RJ, Fulton RW, Gentry MJ, Rummage JA: Effect of vaccination with live or killed Pasteurella haemolytica on resistance to experimental bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis. Am J Vet Res 46:342-347, 1985.

40. Gentry MJ, Confer AW, Panciera RJ: Serum neutralization of cytotoxin from Pasteurella haemolytica, serotype 1 and resistance to experimental bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 9:239-250, 1985.

41. McKinney KL, Confer AW, Rummage JA, Gentry MJ, Durham JA: Pasteurella haemolytica: purification of saline-extractable proteins by isoelectrofocusing. Vet Microbiol 10:465-480, 1985.

42. Shane SM, Stewart TB, Confer AW, Pirie GJ: Knemidokoptes pilae infestation in the Palm Cockatoo. Avian/Exotic Pract 2(2):21-25, 1985.

43. Lessley BA, Confer AW, Mosier DA, Gentry MJ, Durham JA, Rummage JA: Saline-extracted antigens of Pasteurella haemolytica: separation by chromatofocusing, preliminary characterization, and evaluation of immunogenicity. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 10:279-296, 1985.

44. Confer AW, Lessley BA, Panciera RJ, Fulton RW, Kreps JA: Serum antibodies to antigens derived from a saline extract of Pasteurella haemolytica: correlation with resistance to experimental bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 10:265-278, 1985.

45. Confer AW, Hall SM, Espe BH: Transient enhancement of the serum antibody response to Brucella abortus strain 19 in cattle treated with levamisole. Am J Vet Res 46:2440-2443, 1985.

46. Gentry MJ, Confer AW, Kreps JA: A simple visual assay for determination of Pasteurella haemolytica cytotoxin neutralizing antibody titers in cattle sera. J Clin Microbiol 22:968-972, 1985.

47. Confer AW, Hall SM, Faulkner CB, Espe BH, Deyoe BL, Morton RJ, Smith RA: Effects of challenge dose on the clinical and immune responses of cattle vaccinated with reduced doses of Brucella abortus strain 19. Vet Microbiol 10: 561-575, 1985.

48. Confer AW, Simons KR: Effects of Pasteurella haemolytica lipopolysaccharide on selected functions of bovine leukocytes. Am J Vet Res 47:154-157, 1986.


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49. Confer AW, Panciera RJ, Mosier DA: Serum antibodies to Pasteurella haemolytica lipopolysaccharide: relationship to experimental bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis. Am J Vet Res 47:1134-1138, 1986.

50. Mosier DA, Lessley BA, Confer AW, Antone SM, Gentry MJ: Chromatographic separation and characterization of Pasteurella haemolytica cytotoxin. Am J Vet Res 47: 2233-2241, 1986.

51. Durham JA, Confer AW, Mosier DA, Lessley BA: Comparison of the antigens associated with saline, potassium thiocyanate, and sodium salicylate extracts of Pasteurella haemolytica serotype 1. Am J Vet Res 47:1946-1951, 1986.

52. Mosier DA, Confer AW, Hall SM, Gentry MJ, Panciera RJ: An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of serum antibodies to Pasteurella haemolytica cytotoxin (leukotoxin) in cattle. J Clin Microbiol 24:218-222, 1986.

53. Gentry MJ, Confer AW, Weinberg ED, Homer JT: Cytotoxin (leukotoxin) production by Pasteurella haemolytica: requirement for an iron-containing compound. Am J Vet Res 47:1919-1923, 1986.

54. Confer AW, Panciera RJ, Gentry MJ, Fulton RW: Immunologic response and resistance to experimental pneumonic pasteurellosis in cattle vaccinated with varying doses of lyophilized Pasteurella haemolytica. Am J Vet Res 47:1853-1857, 1986.

55. Confer AW, Durham JA, Simons KR: Demonstration of molecular weight markers on Western blots using polyclonal antisera. J Immunol Methods 93:285-286, 1986.

56. Gentry MJ, Confer AW, Craven RC: The effect of repeated In vitro transfer of Pasteurella haemolytica A1 on encapsulation, leukotoxin production, and virulence. J Clin Microbiol 25:142-145, 1987.

57. Confer AW, Tabatabai LB, Deyoe BL, Oltjen SL, Hall SM, Oltjen JW, Morton RJ, Fulnechek DL, Smith RE, Smith RA: Vaccination of cattle with chemically-modified and unmodified salt-extractable proteins from Brucella abortus. Vet Microbiol 15:325-340, 1987.

58. Confer AW, Panciera RJ, Gentry MJ, Fulton RW: Immunological response to Pasteurella haemolytica and resistance against experimental bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis, induced by bacterins in oil adjuvants. Am J Vet Res 48:163- 168, 1987.

59. Hall SM, Confer AW: A comparison of the Track XITM fluorometric immunoassay system with other serological tests in the detection of serum antibody to Brucella abortus in cattle. J Clin Microbiol 25:350-354, 1987.

60. Gentry MJ, Confer AW, Holland SG: Comparison of the toxic and antigenic properties of single bovine isolates of Pasteurella haemolytica representing five serotypes and an untypable strain. Vet Microbiol 16:351-367, 1988.

61. Hall SM, Confer AW, Patterson JM: Brucella abortus specific isotypes in serum and vaginal mucus from cattle vaccinated with strain 19 and challenge exposed with virulent strain 2308. Am J Vet Res 49:840-846, 1988.

62. Durham JA, Antone SM, Cunningham MW, Confer AW: Monoclonal antibodies to Pasteurella haemolytica serotype 1 lipopolysaccharide: demonstration of antigenic similarities among several serotypes. J Clin Microbiol 26:885-889, 1988.

63. Confer AW, Panciera RJ, Mosier DA: Bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis: immunity to Pasteurella haemolytica. JAVMA 193:1308-1316,1988.

64. Confer AW, Simons KR, Panciera RJ, Mort AJ, Mosier DA: Serum antibody response to carbohydrate antigens of Pasteurella haemolytica serotype 1: relation to experimental bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis. Am J Vet Res 50:98-105, 1989.

65. Clinkenbeard KD, Mosier DA, Timko AL, Confer AW: Effects of Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin on cultured bovine lymphocytes. Am J Vet Res 50:271- 275, 1989.


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66. Mosier DA, Simons KR, Confer AW, Panciera RJ, Clinkenbeard KD: Serum IgG and IgM antibody response to antigens of Pasteurella haemolytica. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 22:53-66, 1989.

67. Hall SM, Confer AW: Brucella abortus-specific immunoglobulin isotypes in serum and vaginal mucus from cattle vaccinated with Brucella abortus salt-extractable proteins and challenge exposed with virulent organisms. Am J Vet Res 50:1997-2003, 1989.

68. Paulsen DB, Mosier DA, Clinkenbeard KD, Confer AW: The direct effects of Pasteurella haemolytica lipopolysaccharide on bovine pulmonary endothelial cells in vitro. Am J Vet Res 50:1633-1637, 1989.

69. Clinkenbeard KD, Mosier DA, Confer AW: Transmembrane pore size and role of cell swelling in cytotoxicity caused by Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin. Infect Immun 57:420-425, 1989.

70. Simons KR, Morton RJ, Mosier DA, Fulton RW, Confer AW: Comparison of the Pasteurella haemolytica A1 envelope proteins by two cell disruption methods. J Clin Microbiol 27:664-667, 1989.

71. Mosier DA, Simons KR, Confer AW, Panciera RJ, Clinkenbeard KD: Pasteurella haemolytica antigens associated with resistance to pneumonia pasteurellosis. Infect Immun 57:711-716, 1989.

72. Clinkenbeard KD, Mosier DA, Confer AW: Effects of Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin on isolated bovine neutrophils. Toxicon 27:797-804, 1989.

73. Confer AW, Wyckoff JH III, Oltjen SL, Oltjen JW: Sepracell-MN for mononuclear cell separation from cattle: Effect on mitogen- and antigen-induced lymphocyte blastogenesis. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 22:79-90, 1989.

74. Mosier DA, Confer AW, Panciera RJ: The evolution of vaccines for pneumonic pasteurellosis. Res Vet Sci 47:1-11, 1989.

75. Confer AW, Panciera RJ, Clinkenbeard KD, Mosier DA: Molecular aspects of virulence of Pasteurella haemolytica. Can J Vet Res, S4 Suplmt:S48-S52, 1990.

76. Wyckoff JH III, Confer AW: Immunomodulation in cattle immunized with Brucella abortus strain 19. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 26:367-383, 1990.

77. Paulsen DB, Confer AW, Clinkenbeard KD, Mosier DA: Pasteurella haemolytica lipopolysaccharide-induced arachidonic acid release from and neutrophil adherence to bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cells. Am J Vet Res 51:1635-1639, 1990.

78. Confer AW, Simons KR, Barrie MT, Clinkenbeard KD: Effects of Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin on neutrophils from white-tailed deer and several exotic ruminant species. Vet Res Comm 14:175-180, 1990.

79. Chae CH, Gentry MJ, Confer AW, Anderson GA: Resistance to host immune defense mechanisms afforded by capsular material of Pasteurella haemolytica, serotype 1. Vet Microbiol 25:241-251, 1990.

80. Burba DJ, Jann HW, Confer AW: Surgical reduction of a laryngeal lymphosarcoma mass causing dyspnea in a horse. Eq Pract 13:14-18, 1991.

81. Craven RC, Confer AW, Gentry MJ: Cloning and expression of a 30 kDa surface antigen of Pasteurella haemolytica. Vet Microbiol 27:63-78, 1991.

82. Dzata GK, Confer AW, Wyckoff JH III: The effects of adjuvants on immune responses in cattle injected with Brucella abortus soluble antigen. Vet Microbiol 29:27-48, 1991.

83. Dzata GK, Wyckoff JH III, Confer AW: Immunopotentiation of cattle vaccinated with a soluble Brucella abortus antigen with low LPS content: an analysis of cellular and humoral immune responses. Vet Microbiol 29:15-26, 1991.

84. Kiorpes AL, Collins MT, Goerke TP, Traul DL, Confer AW, Gentry MJ, Baumann LE: Immune response of neonatal lambs to a modified live Pasteurella haemolytica vaccine. Sm Rumin Vet Res 4:73-84, 1991.


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85. Elangbam CS, Qualls CW Jr, Confer AW: Evaluation of ultrastructural hepatic response to environmental toxicants in wild cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus). Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 47:321-328, 1991.

86. Confer AW, Durham JA, Clarke CR: Comparison of antigens of Pasteurella haemolytica serotype 1 grown in vitro and in vivo. Am J Vet Res 53:472-476, 1992.

87. Confer AW, Durham JA: Sequential development of antigens and toxins of Pasteurella haemolytica serotype 1 grown in cell culture medium. Am J Vet Res 53:646-652, 1992.

88. Simons KR, Morton RJ, Fulton RW, Confer AW: Comparison of antigens and antibody to outer membranes from Pasteurella haemolytica serotype 1 and eight untypable strains. Am J Vet Res 53:971-975, 1992.

89. Clinkenbeard KD, Clarke CR, Morton RJ, Mosier DA, Panciera RJ, Confer AW: Role of Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin in virulence and immunity in shipping fever pneumonia. Compend 14:1249-1262, 1992.

90. Simons KR, Morton RJ, Mosier DA, Fulton RW, Confer AW: Co-migrating and shared antigens of selected Pasteurella haemolytica untypable strains. Vet Res Comm 16:177-183, 1992.

91. Wyckoff JH III, Howland JL, Confer AW: Comparison of Brucella abortus antigen preparations for in vitro stimulation of immune bovine T lymphocyte cell lines. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 36:45-64, 1993.

92. Confer AW: Immunogens of Pasteurella. Vet Microbiol 37:353-368, 1993.

93. Mosier DA, Simons KR, Chengappa MM, Confer AW: Antigenic composition of Pasteurella haemolytica serotype-1 supernatants from supplemented and nonsupplemented media. Am J Vet Res 55: 348-352, 1994.

94. Johnson B, Mosier DA, Morton RJ, Confer AW: Experimental Brucella abortus strain 19 arthritis in young cattle. J Vet Diag Invest 6:56-61, 1994.

95. Weldon SK, Mosier DA, Simons KR, Craven RC, Confer AW: Identification of a potentially important antigen of Pasteurella haemolytica. Vet Microbiol 40:283-292, 1994.

96. Waurzyniak BJ, Clinkenbeard KD, Confer AW, Shrikumaran S: Enhancement of Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxic activity by bovine serum albumin. Am J Vet Res 55: 1267-1274, 1994.

97. Confer AW, Panciera RJ: Testing of two new generation Pasteurella haemolytica vaccines against experimental bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis. Agri-Practice 15(8):10-15, 1994.

98. Dabo SM, Confer AW, Styre D, Murphy GL: Expression, purification and immunologic analysis of three Pasteurella haemolytica A1 28-30 kDa lipoproteins. Microbiol Pathogenesis 17:149-158, 1994.

99. Paulsen DB, Confer AW, Clinkenbeard KD, Mosier DA: Pasteurella haemolytica lipopolysaccharide-induced cytotoxicity in bovine pulmonary artery endothelial monolayers: inhibition by indomethacin. Vet Pathol 32:173-183, 1995.

100. Confer AW, Fulton RW: Evaluation of Pasteurella and Haemophilus vaccines. The Bovine Proceedings 27:136-141, 1995.

101. Confer AW, McCraw RD, Durham JA, Morton RJ, Panciera RJ: Serum antibody responses of cattle to iron-regulated outer membrane proteins of Pasteurella haemolytica A1. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 47:101-110, 1995.

102. Fulton RW, Confer AW, Burge LJ, Perino LJ, d'Offay JM, Payton ME, Moch RE: Antibody responses by cattle after vaccination with commercial viral vaccines containing bovine herpesvirus-1, bovine viral diarrhea virus, parainfluenza virus and bovine respiratory syncytial virus immunogens and subsequent revaccination at day 140. Vaccine 13:725-733, 1995.


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103. Morton RJ, Panciera RJ, Fulton RW, Frank GH, Ewing SA, Homer JT, Confer AW: Vaccination of cattle with outer membrane protein-enriched fractions of Pasteurella haemolytica and resistance against experimental challenge. Am J Vet Res 56:875-879, 1995.

104. Morton RJ, Simons KR, Confer AW: Major outer membrane proteins of Pasteurella haemolytica serovars 1-15: comparison of separation techniques and surface-exposed proteins on selected serovars. Vet Microbiol 51:319-330, 1996.

105. Guglick MA, MacAllister CG, Ewing PJ, Confer AW: Rectal vascular thrombosis in a horse resulting in spontaneous rectal perforation. J Amer Vet Med Assoc 209:1125-1127, 1996.

106. Confer AW, Nutt SH, Dabo SM, Panciera RJ, Murphy GL: Antibody responses of cattle to outer membrane proteins of Pasteurella multocida A:3. Am J Vet Res 57:1453-1457, 1996.

107. Mahasreshti PJ, Murphy GL, Wyckoff JH, Farmer S, Hancock REW, Confer AW: Purification and partial characterization of the OmpA family of proteins of Pasteurella haemolytica: Infect and Immun 65:211-218, 1997.

108. Dabo SM, Confer AW, Murphy GL: Outer membrane proteins of bovine Pasteurella multocida serogroup A isolates. Vet Microbiol 54: 167-183, 1997.

109. Cummings CA, Copedge KJ, Confer AW: Equine gastric impaction, ulceration, and perforation due to Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) ingestion. J Vet Diag Invest, 9: 311-313, 1997.

110. Confer AW, Clinkenbeard KD, Gatewood DM, Driskel BA, Montelongo M: Serum antibody responses of cattle vaccinated with partially purified native Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin. Vaccine 15: 1423-1429, 1997.

111. Mosier DA, Panciera RJ, Rogers DP Uhlich GA, Butine MD, Confer AW, Basaraba RJ: Comparison of serologic and protective responses induced by two Pasteurella vaccines. Can J Vet Res 62: 178-182, 1998.

112. Clarke CR, Confer AW, Mosier DA: In vivo effect of Pasteurella haemolytica infection on leukocyte morphology. Am J Vet Res 59:588-592, 1998.

113. Murphy GL, Whitworth, LC, Confer AW, Gaskins JP, Pandher K, Dabo SM: Characterization of a Pasteurella haemolytica A1 mutant with deficient in the production of three membrane lipoproteins. Am J Vet Res, 59: 1275-1280, 1998.

114. Confer AW, Fulton RW, Clinkenbeard KD, Driskel BA. Duration of serum antibody responses following vaccination and revaccination of cattle with non-living commercial Pasteurella haemolytica vaccines. Vaccine 16: 1962-1970, 1998.

115. Pandher K, Confer AW, Murphy GL. Genetic and immunologic analysis of PlpE, a lipoprotein important in complement-mediated killing of Pasteurella haemolytica Serotype 1. Infect Immun 66:5613-5619, 1998.

116. Dabo SM, Debey BM, Montelongo M, Confer AW. Genomic DNA restriction site heterogeneity in bovine P. multocida serogroup A isolates detected with an rRNA probe. J Med Microbiol 48: 279-286, 1999.

117. Pandher K, Murphy GL, Confer AW. Identification of immunogenic, surface-exposed outer membrane proteins of Pasteurella haemolytica serotype 1. Vet Microbiol 65:215-226, 1999.

118. Fulton RW, d’Offay JM, Saliki JT, Burge LJ, Helman RG, Confer AW, Bolin SR, Ridpath JF. Nested reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for typing ruminant pestiviruses: Bovine viral diarrhea viruses and border disease virus. Can J Vet Res 63:276-281, 1999.

119. Dabo SM, Confer AW, Montelongo M, Lu YS. Characterization of rabbit Pasteurella multocida isolates by PCR fingerprinting, whole cell, and outer membrane profiles. Lab Anim Sci 49:551-559, 1999


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120. Fulton RW, Saliki JT, Confer AW, Burge LJ, d’Offay JM, Helman RG, Bolin SR, Ridpath JF, Payton ME. Bovine viral diarrhea virus cytopathic and noncytopathic biotypes and type 1 and 2 genotypes in diagnostic laboratory accessions: Clinical and necropsy samples from cattle. J Vet Diagn Inv 12: 33-38, 2000.

121. Dabo SM, Confer AW, Lu YS. Single primer polymerase chain reaction fingerprinting for Pasteurella multocida isolates from laboratory rabbits. Amer J Vet Res 61:305-309, 2000.

122. Fulton RW, Purdy CW, Confer AW, Saliki JT, Loan RW, Briggs RE, Burge LJ. Bovine viral diarrhea type 1 and 2 infections in feeder calves with respiratory disease: Interactions with Pasteurella spp., parainfluenza-3 virus, and bovine respiratory syncytial virus. Can J Vet Res 64: 151-159, 2000.

123. Step DL, Streeter RN, Confer AW, Kirkpatrick JG, Sundberg JP, Arnold CS, Bartels KE. Urinary bladder transitional cell papilloma in a Shorthorn heifer. Can Vet J 41: 794-797, 2000.

124. Backues KA, Hoover JP, Bahr RJ, Confer AW, Chalman JA, Larry ML. Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis in a ruffed lemur, Varecia variegata variegata. J Amer Vet Med Assoc 218:250-253, 2001.

125. Panciera RJ, Ewing SA, Confer AW. Ocular histopathology of ehrlichial infections in the dog. Vet Pathol 38:43-46, 2001.

126. Confer AW, Suckow MA, Montelongo M, Dabo SM, Miloscio LJ, Gillespie AJ, Meredith GL. Intranasal vaccination of rabbits with Pasteurella multocida A:3 outer membranes expressing iron-regulated proteins. Amer J Vet Res 62:697-703, 2001.

127. Confer AW, Montelongo M, Brown MJ, Fergen BJ, Clement JC. Onset of Serum Antibodies to Pasteurella (Mannheimia) haemolytica Following Vaccination with Five Commercial Vaccines. Bov Practitioner 35: 141-148, 2001.

128. Gatto NT, Dabo SM, Hancock RE, Confer AW. Characterization of, and immune responses of mice to, the purified OmpA-equivalent outer membrane protein of Pasteurella multocida serotype A:3 (Omp28),. Vet Microbiol 87: 221-235, 2002

129. Fent GM, Fulton RW, Saliki JT, Caseltine SL, Lehmkuhl HD, Confer AW, Purdy CW, Briggs RE, Loan RW, Duff GC. Bovine adenovirus – 7 infections in postweaning calves. Am J Vet Res 63: 976-978, 2002

130. Fulton RW, Cook BJ, Step DL, Confer AW, Saliki JT, Burge LJ, Welsh RD, Blood KS, Payton ME. Evaluation of health status of calves and the impact on feedlot performance: Assessment of a retained ownership program for post weaning calves. Can J Vet Res 66: 173 – 180, 2002.

131. Fulton RW, Ridpath JF, Saliki JT, Briggs RE, Confer AW, Burge LJ, Purdy CW, Loan RW, Duff GC, Payton ME. Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) 1b: Predominant BVDV subtype in calves with respiratory disease. Can J Vet Res 66: 181 – 190, 2002.

132. Carter JN, Meredith GL, Montelongo M, Gill DR, Krehbiel CR, Payton ME, Confer AW. Relationship of vitamin E supplementation and antimicrobial treatment with acute-phase protein responses in cattle affected by naturally acquired respiratory tract disease. Am J Vet Res 63:1111-1117, 2002.

133. Erkert RS, Crowson CL, Moll HD, Bentz BG, Confer AW, Blaik MA. Obstruction of the cecocolic orifice by ileocecocolic intussusception following jejunocecostomy in a horse. JAVMA 222: 1743-1745, 2003

134. Confer AW, Ayalew S, Montelongo M, Panciera RJ, Whitworth LC, Hammer, JD. Immunogenicity of Mannheimia haemolytica serotype 1 recombinant outer membrane protein PlpE and augmentation of a commercial vaccine. Vaccine 21: 2821-2829: 2003

135. Fulton RW, Ridpath JF, Confer AW, Saliki JT, Burge LJ, Payton ME. Bovine viral diarrhea virus antigenic diversity: Impact on disease and vaccination programs. Biologicals 3: 89-95, 2003


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136. Fulton RW, Step DL, Ridpath JF, Saliki JT, Confer AW, Johnson BJ, Briggs RE, Hawley RV, Burge LJ, Payton ME. Response of calves persistently infected with noncytopathic bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) subtype 1b after vaccination with heterologous BVDV strains of modified live virus vaccines and Mannheimia haemolytica bacterin-toxoid. Vaccine 21: 2980–2985, 2003

137. Dabo SM, Confer AW, Quijano-Blas RA. Molecular and immunological characterization of Pasteurella multocida A:3 OmpA: Evidence of its role in P. multocida interaction with extracellular matrix molecules. Microb Pathog 35:147 – 157, 2003.

138. Fulton RW, Briggs RE, Payton ME, Confer AW, Saliki JT, Ridpath JF, Burge LJ, Duff GC. Maternally derived humoral antibody to bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV)1a, BVDV1b, BVDV2, bovine herpesvirus-1, parainfluenza-3 virus, bovine respiratory syncytial virus, Mannheimia haemolytica, and Pasteurella multocida, in beef calves, antibody decline by half-life studies and effect on response to vaccination. Vaccine 22: 643 - 649, 2004

139. Berry BA, Krehbiel CR, Gill DR, Confer AW, Smith RA, Montelongo M. Effects of dietary energy and starch concentrations for newly received feedlot calves: I. Growth performance and health J Anim Sci 82: 837-844, 2004

140. Berry BA, Confer AW, Krehbiel CR, Gill DR, Smith RA, Montelongo M. Effects of dietary energy and starch concentrations for newly received feedlot calves: II. Acute-phase protein response J Anim Sci 82: 845-850, 2004.

141. Welsh RD, Dye LB, Payton ME, Confer AW. Frequency of isolation and antimicrobial susceptibilities of bacterial pathogens from bovine pneumonia: 1994-2002. J Vet Diag Invest 16:426-431, 2004.

142. Ayalew S, Confer AW, Blackwood ER. Characterization of Immunodominant and Potentially Protective Epitopes of Mannheimia haemolytica Serotype 1 Outer Membrane Lipoprotein PlpE. Infect and Immun 72: 7265-7274, 2004

143. Caudell D, Confer AW, Fulton RW, Berry A, Saliki JT, Fent GM, Ritchey JW. Diagnosis of infectious canine hepatitis virus (CAV-1) in puppies with encephalopathy. J Vet Diagn Invest 17: 58-61, 2005

144. Prado ME, Dabo SM, Confer AW. Immunogenicity of iron-regulated outer membrane proteins of Pasteurella multocida A:3 in cattle: molecular characterization of the immunodominant heme acquisition system receptor (HasR) protein. Vet Microbiol, 105: 269-280, 2005.

145. Confer AW, Fulton RW, Step DL, Johnson BJ, Ridpath JF. Viral antigen distribution in the respiratory tract of cattle persistently infected with bovine viral diarrhea virus subtype 2a. Vet Pathol 42: 192-199, 2005

146. Step DL, Confer AW, Kirkpatrick JG, Richards JB, Fulton RW. Respiratory tract infections in dairy calves from birth to breeding age: detection by laboratory isolations and seroconversions. Bov Practitioner 39: 44 – 53, 2005

147. Fulton RW, Briggs RE, Ridpath JF, Saliki JT, Confer AW, Payton ME, Duff GC, Step DL, Walker D. Transmission of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus 1b to Susceptible and Vaccinated Calves by Exposure to Persistently Infected Calves. Can J Vet Res 69: 161-169, 2005

148. Carter JN, Gill DR, Lalman DL, Krehbiel CR, Confer AW, Smith RA, Claypool PL, McDowell LR. Vitamin E supplementation in the diet of newly arrived feedlot cattle. J Anim Sci 83: 1924-1932, 2005

149. Dabo SM, Confer AW. Adherence of Pasteurella multocida to fibronectin. Vet Microbiol 110: 265-275, 2005

150. Fulton RW, Ridpath JF, Ore S, Confer AW, Saliki JT, Burge LJ, Payton ME. Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) Subgenotypes in Diagnostic Laboratory Accessions: Distribution of BVDV1a, 1b, and 2a Subgenotypes. Vet Microbiol 111: 35-40, 2005.


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151. Wyckoff JH III, Howland JL, Scott CMO, Smith RA, Confer AW. Recombinant bovine interleukin 2 enhances immunity and protection induced by Brucella abortus vaccines in cattle. Vet Microbiol 111: 77-87, 2005

152. Fulton, R.W., Hessman,B., Johnson, B.J., Ridpath, J.F., Saliki, J.T, Burge, L.J., Sjeklocha, D., Confer, A.W., Funk, RA, and Payton, M.E.: Evaluation of diagnostic tests used for detection of bovine viral diarrhea virus and prevalence of subtypes 1a, 1b, and 2a in persistently infected cattle entering a feedlot. J Am Vet Med Assoc 228:578-584, 2006.

153. Confer AW, Ayalew S, Panciera RJ, Montelongo M, Wray JH. Recombinant Mannheimia haemolytica serotype 1 outer membrane protein PlpE enhances commercial M. haemolytica vaccine-induced resistance against serotype 6 challenge. Vaccine 24: 2248-2255, 2006

154. Singh K, Confer AW, Holbrook TC. An unusual presentation of multisystemic eosinophilic epitheliotropic disease (MEED) in a Horse. Vet Pathol 43:189-193, 2006

155. Fulton, R.W., Johnson, B.J., Briggs, R.E., Ridpath, J.F., Saliki, J.T., Confer, A.W., Burge, L.J., Step, D.L., Walker, D.A., Payton, M.E.: Challenge with Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus by Persistently Infected Calves to Vaccinates and Nonvaccinates: Protection by Vaccination and Immunohistochemistry and Antigen Capture ELISA Results in Acutely Infected Calves. Can J Vet Res 70:121-127, 2006

156. Dabo SM, Confer AW, Anderson BE, Gupta S. Bartonella henselae Pap31, an extracellular matrix adhesin binds fibronectin repeat III13 module. Infect & Immun 74: 2513-2521, 2006

157. Prado, ME, Confer AW, Prado TM. Maternally- and naturally-acquired antibodies to Mannheimia haemolytica and Pasteurella multocida in beef calves. Vet Immunol & Immunopathol 111: 301-307, 2006

158. Ayalew S, Blackwood ER, Confer AW. Sequence diversity of the immunogenic outer membrane lipoprotein PlpE from Mannheimia haemolytica serotypes 1, 2, and 6. Vet Microbiol 114: 260–268, 2006.

159. Gatto NT, Estes DM, Confer AW, Whitworth LC, Murphy GL. Lung Lesions in SCID-bo and SCID-bg Mice after Intratracheal inoculation with Wild-type or Leucotoxin-deficient Mutant Strains of Mannheimia haemolytica Serotype 1. J Comp Pathol 134: 355-365, 2006.

160. Dabo SM, Confer AW, Saliki JT, Anderson BE. Binding of Bartonella henselae to extracellular molecules: identification of potential adhesins. Microb Path 41: 10-20, 2006.

161. Duggan VE, Holyoak GR, MacAllister CG, Confer AW. Influence of induction of parturition on the neonatal acute phase response in foals. Theriogenology 15:372-381, 2006

162. Joyner PH, Reichard MV, Meinkoth JH, Milne VE, Confer AW, Kocan AA, Hoover JP. Experimental infection of domestic cats (Felis domesticus) with a novel Cytauxzoon-like piroplasm. Vet Parasitol, 146: 302–306, 2007

163. Holyoak GR, Smith CM, Boyette R, Montelongo M, Wray JH, Ayalew S, Duggan VE, Confer AW. Serum antibodies in mares and foals to Actinobacillus equuli whole cells, outer membrane proteins, and Aqx toxin. Vet Immunol & Immunopathol 118: 310 – 316, 2007

164. Erkert RS, Moll HD, MacAllister CG, Confer AW, Ritchey JW. Infiltrative lipoma in the American Quarter Horse gelding. Equine Veterinary Education 19: 380-383, 2007.

165. Dabo SM, Taylor JD, Confer AW. Pasteurella multocida and bovine respiratory disease. Animal Health Research Review 8: 129-150, 2007

166. Duggan VE, Holyoak GR, MacAllister CG, Cooper SR, Confer AW. Amyloid A in equine colostrum and early milk. Vet Immunol & Immunopathol 121: 150-155, 2008

167. Finkelstein A, Hoover JP, Caudell D, Confer AW. Cutaneous epithelioid variant hemangiosarcoma in a captive African hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris). J Exotic Pet Med 17:49-53, 2008


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168. Kirkpatrick JG, Step DL, Payton ME, Richards JB, McTague LF, Saliki JT, Confer AW, Cook B, Ingram S, Wright C. Effect of age at the time of vaccination on antibody titers and feedlot performance in beef calves. JAVMA 233; 136-142, 2008

169. Step DL, Krehbiel CR, DePra HA, Cranston JJ; Fulton RW, Kirkpatrick JG, Gill DR, Payton ME, Montelongo M, Confer AW. Effects of commingling beef calves from different sources and weaning protocols during a forty-two-day receiving period on performance and bovine respiratory disease J An Sci 86:3146-3158, 2008

170. Dabo SM, Confer AW, Montelongo M. Vaccination with Pasteurella multocida recombinant OmpA induces strong but non-protective and deleterious Th2-type immune response in mice. Vaccine 26:4345-4351, 2008

171. Ayalew S, Confer AW, Payton ME, Garrels KD, Shrestha B, Ingram K, Montelongo M, Taylor JD. Mannheimia haemolytica Chimeric Protein Vaccine Composed of the Major Surface-Exposed Epitope of Outer Membrane Lipoprotein PlpE and the Neutralizing Epitope of Leukotoxin. Vaccine 26: 4955–4961, 2008

172. Kelton DR, Holbrook TC, Gilliam LL, Rizzi TE, Brosnahan MM, Confer AW. Bone marrow necrosis and myelophthisis: Manifestations of T-cell lymphoma in a horse. Vet Clin Pathol 37:403-408, 2008.

173. Step, D.L., Litherland, N.B., Burciaga-Robles, L.O., Breshears, M.A., Krehbiel, C.R., Confer, A.W., Fulton, R.W., Morgan, G.L., Thornsberry, R.M., Fassig, S.M.: Clinical Observations, Biochemical Analysis, and Postmortem and Histopathological Findings in Young Dairy Calves Fed Zeolite Clinoptilolite Binder Combined with Milk Replacer.. Am J Vet Res 69:1587-1594, 2008

174. Confer AW, Ayalew S, Montelongo M, Step DL, Wray JH, Hansen RD, Panciera RJ. Immunity of cattle following vaccination with a Mannheimia haemolytica Chimeric PlpE-LKT (SAC89) protein. Vaccine 27: 1771-1776, 2009.

175. Boileau MJ, Jann HW, Confer AW. Use of a chain écraseur for excision of a pharyngeal granuloma from a cow. JAVMA 234:935–937, 2009

176. Fulton RW, Blood KS, Panciera RJ, Payton M, Ridpath JF, Confer AW, Saliki JT, Burge LT, Welsh RD, Johnson BJ, Reck A. Lung pathology and infectious agents in fatal feedlot pneumonias and relationship with mortality, Disease Onset, and Treatments. J Vet Diagn Invest 21:464-477, 2009.

177. Brosnahan MM, Holbrook TC, Gilliam LL, Ritchey JW, Confer AW. Intra-abdominal hypertension in two adult horses. J Vet Emerg & Crit Care 19: 174-180, 2009

178. Step DL, Krehbiel CR, Burciaga-Robles LO, Holland BP, Fulton RW, Confer AW, Bechtol DT, Brister DL, Hutcheson JP, Newcomb HL. Comparison of single vaccination versus revaccination with a modified-live virus vaccine containing bovine herpesvirus-1, bovine viral diarrhea virus (types 1a and 2a), parainfluenza type 3 virus, and bovine respiratory syncytial virus in the prevention of bovine respiratory disease in cattle. JAVMA 235: 580-587, 2009

179. Fulton RW, Whitley E, Johnson BJ, Ridpath JF, Kapil S, Burge LJ, Cook BJ, Confer AW. Prevalence of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) in Persistently Infected Cattle and BVDV Subtypes in Affected Cattle. In beef herds in South Central United States. Can J Vet Res 73:283-291, 2009

180. Confer AW, Ayalew S, Step D L, Trojan B, Montelongo M. Intranasal vaccination of young Holstein calves with Mannheimia haemolytica chimeric protein PlpE-LKT (SAC89) and cholera toxin Vet Immun & Immunopathol 132: 232-236, 2009

181. Ayalew S, Step DL, Montelongo M, Confer AW. Intranasal vaccination of calves with Mannheimia haemolytica chimeric protein containing the major surface epitope of outer membrane lipoprotein PlpE, the neutralizing epitope of leukotoxin, and cholera toxin subunit B. Vet Immun & Immunopathol 132: 295-302, 2009

182. Confer AW. Update on bacterial pathogenesis in BRD. Animal Health Res Rev 10: 145-149: 2009

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183. Taylor JD, Fulton RW, Dabo SM, Lehenbauer TW, Confer AW. Comparison of genotypic and phenotypic characterization methods for Pasteurella multocida isolates from fatal cases of bovine respiratory disease. J Vet Diagn Invest 22: 366-375, 2010

184. Ayalew S, Confer AW, Hartson SD, Shrestha B. Immunoproteomic Analysis of Outer Membrane Proteins of Mannheimia haemolytica and Identification of Potential Vaccine Candidates. Proteomics 10: 2151-2164, 2010

185. Burciaga-Robles LO, Step DL, Krehbiel CR, Holland BP, Richards CJ, Montelongo MA, Confer AW, Fulton RW. Effects of exposure to calves persistently infected with BVDV1b and subsequent infection with Mannheimia haemolytica on clinical signs and immune parameters: Model for bovine respiratory disease via viral and bacterial interaction. J Anim Sci 88: 2166-2178, 2010

186. Burciaga-Robles LO, Step DL, Krehbiel CR, Holland BP, Richards CJ, Montelongo MA, Confer AW, Fulton RW. Effects of exposure to calves persistently infected with bovine viral diarrhea virus type 1b and Mannheimia haemolytica challenge on animal performance, N balance, and visceral organ mass in beef steers. J Anim Sci 88: 2179-2188, 2010

187. Snider TA, Confer AW., Payton ME. Pulmonary histopathology of Cytauxzoon felis infections in the cat. Veterinary Pathology 47: 698-702, 2010

188. Panciera RJ, Confer AW. Pathogenesis and pathology of bovine pneumonia. Vet Clin North Amer Food Anim Prac 26: 191-214, 2010

189. Taylor JD, Fulton RW, Lehenbauer TW, Step DL, Confer AW. The epidemiology of bovine respiratory disease: What is the evidence for predisposing factors? Can Vet J 51: 1095-1102, 2010

190. Taylor JD, Fulton RW, Lehenbauer TW, Step DL, Confer AW. The epidemiology of bovine respiratory disease: What is the evidence for preventive measures? Can Vet J 51: 1351-1359, 2010

191. Stern AW, Singh K, Allison R, Kiupel M, Confer AW. Round cell variant of a peripheral neuroectodermal tumor in a cat. J Vet Res 15: 38-45, 2011

192. Singh K, Ritchey JW, Confer AW. Mannheimia haemolytica: Bacterial-host interactions in bovine pneumonia. Vet Pathol 48:338 – 348, 2011

193. Rose-Dye TK, Burciaga-Robles LO, Krehbiel CR, Step DL, Fulton RW, Confer AW, Richards CJ. Rumen temperature change monitored with remote reporting rumen temperature boluses following challenges with Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus and Mannheimia haemolytica. J Animal Sci 89: 1193-1200, 2011.

194. Singh K, Confer AW, Hope JC, Rizzi T, Wyckoff JH, Weng HY, Ritchey JW. Cytotoxicity and cytokine production by bovine alveolar macrophages challenged with wild type and leukotoxin-deficient Mannheimia haemolytica. The Vet J 188: 221-227, 2011

195. Fulton RW, Cook BJ, Blood KS, Confer AW, Payton ME, Step DL, Saliki JT, Burge LJ, Welsh RD. Immune response to bovine respiratory disease vaccine immunogens in calves at entry to feedlot and impact on feedlot performance. Bov Practitioner 45: 1–12, 2011

196. Fulton, R.W., Step, D.L., Wahrmund, J., Burge, L.J., Payton, M.E., Cook, B.J., Burken, D., Richards, C.J., Confer, A.W.: Bovine Coronavirus (BCV) Infections in Transported Commingled Beef Cattle and Sole-Source Ranch Calves. Can J Vet Res. 75:191-199, 2011.

197. Holland BP, Step DL, Burciaga-Robles LO, Fulton RW, Confer AW, Rose TK, Laidig LE, Richards CJ, Krehbiel CR. Effectiveness of sorting calves with high risk of developing bovine respiratory


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disease on the basis of serum haptoglobin concentration at the time of arrival at a feedlot. AJVR 72: 1349-1360, 2011

198. Skaggs JS, Holyoak GR, Montelongo M, Ayalew S, Confer AW. Serum antibody responses following immunization with Actinobacillus equuli outer membrane proteins and recombinant Aqx toxin. The Vet J 190, e91-e94, 2011

199. Ayalew S, Shrestha B, Montelongo M, Confer AW. Identification and immunogenicity of Mannheimia haemolytica S1 outer membrane lipoprotein PlpF. Vaccine 47: 8712-8718, 2011

200. Ayalew S, Shrestha B, Montelongo M, Wilson AE, Confer AW. Immunogenicity of Mannheimia haemolytica recombinant outer membrane proteins SSA-1, OmpA, OmpP2, and OmpD15. Clin & Vaccine Immunol 18: 2067-2074, 2011

201. Ayalew S, Shrestha B, Payton ME, Confer AW. A Rapid Microtiter Plate Serum Bactericidal Assay Method for Determining Serum Complement-mediated Killing of Mannheimia haemolytica. J Microbiological Methods 89: 99-101, 2012

202. Singh K, Confer AW, Step DL, Rizzi T, Wyckoff JH, Weng HY, Ritchey JW. Cytokine expression by pulmonary leukocytes from calves challenged with wild-type and leukotoxin-deficient Mannheimia haemolytica. The Vet J 192: 112-119, 2012

203. Fulton RW, Confer AW. Laboratory test descriptions for bovine respiratory disease diagnosis and their strengths and weaknesses: Gold Standards for diagnosis, do they exist? Can Vet J 53: 754-761, 2012

204. Ayalew S, Confer AW, Shrestha B, Wilson AE, Montelongo M. Proteomic Analysis and Immunogenicity of Mannheimia haemolytica Vesicles. Clin & Vaccine Immunol 20:191-196, 2013.

205. Confer AW, Ayalew S. The OmpA Family of Proteins: Roles in Bacterial Pathogenesis and

Immunity. Vet Microbiol. 163: 207-222, 2013 206. Taylor JD, Doyle DJ, Blackall PJ, Confer AW. Use of REP-PCR and 16s rRNA gene sequencing

for comparison of Mannheimia haemolytica isolates obtained from fatal cases of bovine respiratory disease in the USA and Australia. Austral Vet J 92:15-23, 2014

207. Layman QD, Rezabek GB, Love BC, Confer AW. A retrospective study of equine actinobacillosis cases: 1999-2011. J Vet Diag Invest 26: 265-375, 2014

208. Maier-Moore JS, Horton CG, Matthews SA, Confer AW, Lawrence C, Pan Z, Coggeshall M, Farris D. IL-6 Deficiency Corrects Nephritis, Lymphocyte Abnormalities and Secondary Sjögren’s Features in Sle1.Yaa Lupus-prone Mice. Arthritis Rheumatol 66: 2521-2531, 2014

209. Moser DK, Jann HW, Confer AW, Kuzma C. Hindlimb lameness caused by systemic lymphosarcoma in a warmblood mare. Eq Vet Educ. 26: 416-419, 2014

210. Fulton RW, Herd HR, Sorenson NJ, Confer AW, Ritchey JW, Ridpath JF, Burge LJ. Enteric disease in postweaned beef calves associated with Bovine coronavirus clade 2. J Vet Diag Invest 27: 97-101, 2015

211. Holbrook T, Gilliam L, Stein F, Morgan S, Avery A, Confer AW, Panciera RJ. Lathyrus hirsutus (Caley Pea) Intoxication in a Herd of Horses. J Vet Intern Med 29 :294-298, 2015.

212. Taylor JD, Holland B, Step DL, Payton ME, Confer AW. Nasal isolation of Mannheimia haemolytica and Pasteurella multocida as predictors of respiratory disease in shipped calves. Res Vet Sci 99: 41-45, 2015

213. Moriel P, Artioli LF, Poore MH, Confer AW, Marques RS, Cooke RF. Increasing the metabolizable protein supply enhanced growth performance and led to variable results on innate and humoral immune response of preconditioning beef steers. J Anim Sci. 93::4473-85, 2015.

214. Confer AW, Snider TA, Taylor JD, Montelongo M, Sorensen NJ. Pulmonary lesions and clinical disease in calves challenged with Histophilus somni five days after tildipirosin or tulathromycin treatment. Amer J Vet Res 77:358-366, 2016

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215. Fulton RW, d’Offay JM,. Landis C, Miles DG, Smith RA, Saliki JT, Ridpath JF, Confer AW, Neill JD, Eberle R, Clement TJ, Chase CCL, Burge LJ, Payton ME. Detection and characterization of viruses as field and vaccine strains in feedlot cattle with bovine respiratory disease. Vaccine 34:3478-3492, 2016

216. Carlos-Valdez L, Burciaga-Robles LO, Step DL, Krehbiel CR, Holland BP, Richards CJ, Montelongo M, Confer AW, Fulton RW. Effect of timing of Mannheimia haemolytica challenge following short-term natural exposure to bovine viral diarrhea virus type 1b on animal performance and immune response in beef steers. J Anim Sci 94: 4799-4808, 2016

217. Ayalew S, Confer AW , Hartson SD, Canaan PJ, Payton M, Couger B. Proteomic and bioinformatic analyses of putative Mannheimia haemolytica secretome by liquid chromatography & tandem mass spectrometry. Vet Microbiol 203: 73-80, 2017

218. Ayalew S., Confer AW, Hansen RD, Couger MB. Genome sequence of Mannheimia haemolytica serotype 1 isolate 16041065 BH. Genome Announc 2017 Apr 6;5(14). pii: e01721-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01721-16.

219. Ayalew S, Confer AW, Hansen RD, Couger MB. Genome sequence for a spontaneous non-hemolytic mutant of Mannheimia haemolytica 16041065 GH. Genome Announc 2017 Apr 6;5(14). pii: e01720-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01720-16.

220. Rothenburg LS, Snider TA, Wilson A, Confer AW, Ramachandran A, Manic R, Rizzi T, Nafe L. Disseminated Phaeohyphomycosis in a dog. Med Mycol Case Rep15:28-32, 2017.

221. Fulton RW, Confer AW, Sorensen NJ, Ridpath JF, Burge LJ. Bovine viral diarrhea virus 1b fetal infection with extensive hemorrhages. J Vet Diagn Invest, accepted

PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS 1. Confer AW, Kahn DE, Koestner A: Biological Properties of a Canine Distemper Virus Isolate

Associated with Demyelinating Encephalomyelitis. Proc 15th Annual Meeting of American Association of Neuropathologists, Boston, MA 1974:26.

2. Krakowka S, Koestner A, McCullough B, Confer A, Mangi R: Immune Aspects in the Development of Canine Distemper Virus Associated Demyelinating Encephalomyelitis. Proc 7th International Congress of Neuropathology, Budapest, Hungary, 1974:168.

3. Adldinger HK, Confer AW: Cytotoxic In vitro Reaction of Chicken Lymphoid Cells Against Marek's Disease Virus-Infected Target Cells. Proc 3rd International Symposium on Oncogenesis and Herpesviruses, Cambridge, MA 1977:211.

4. Confer AW, Adldinger HK: Cell-Mediated Immune Responses in Chickens with Different Genetic Susceptibility and Acquired Resistance to Experimental Marek's Disease. Proc 115th Annual Meeting of American Veterinary Medical Association, Dallas, TX 1978:171.

5. Confer AW, Wright JC, Cummins JM, Panciera RJ, Corstvet RE: Serologic Response to Pasteurella haemolytica in Vaccinated and Nonvaccinated Feedlot Steers. Proc 63rd Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL 1982:66.

6. Confer AW, Fox JC: A Quantitative Fluorometric Assay for the Measurement of Antibody to Pasteurella haemolytica in Cattle. Proc 63rd Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL 1982:67.

7. Confer AW, Reavis DU, Panciera RJ: Light and Electron Microscopic Changes in Striated Muscle of Sheep with Experimental Monensin Toxicosis. Proc 33rd Annual Meeting of American College of Veterinary Pathologists, Atlanta, GA 1982:14.

8. Gentry MJ, Confer AW: Biological and Immunological Role of Capsular Material of Pasteurella haemolytica. Proc 83rd Annual Meeting American Society of Microbiology, New Orleans, LA 1983: B206.

9. Panciera RJ, Confer AW, Corstvet RE: Bovine Pneumonic Pasteurellosis: Correlative Studies of Lesions and Immunity in Vaccinated Cattle. Proc N Amer Symposium on Bovine Resp Dis, Amarillo, TX, 1983;514-515.


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10. Hutchinson DP, Cummins JM, Confer AW: The Use of a Live Pasteurella haemolytica Vaccine in Feedlot Calves. Proc N Amer Symposium on Bovine Resp Dis, Amarillo, TX 1983;477-478.

11. Gentry MJ, Confer AW: Serum Neutralization of Pasteurella haemolytica Cytotoxin. Proc 64th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL 1983:179.

12. Panciera RJ, Confer AW: Acute Pneumonic Pasteurellosis (shipping fever) of cattle. Presented, Annual AVMA Convention, New Orleans, LA, JAVMA 185:321, 1984

13. Confer AW, Lessley BA, Mosier DA: Separation, Preliminary Characterization, and Immunogenicity of Capsular Antigens Extracted from Pasteurella haemolytica. Proc 65th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL 1984:149.

14. Gentry MJ, Confer AW, Homer JT: Enhancement of Pasteurella haemolytica Cytotoxin Production by Iron-Containing Compounds. Proc 66th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 1985:224.

15. Mosier DA, Lessley BA, Confer AW: Purification and Characterization of Pasteurella haemolytica cytotoxin. Proc 66th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 1985:225.

16. Mosier DA, Confer AW, Panciera RJ, Gentry MJ, Hall SM: An ELISA for Detection of the Serum Antibody Response to Pasteurella haemolytica Cytotoxin in Cattle. Proc 66th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 1985:226.

17. Gentry MJ, Confer AW: A Simple Visual Assay for Pasteurella haemolytica Cytotoxin-Neutralizing Antibodies in Cattle Sera. Proc 66th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 1985:227.

18. Fulton RW, Confer AW, Tyler RD: Pharmacokinetics and Immunomodulation Studies in Calves Administered Recombinant Bovine Alpha-1 Interferon. Proc 66th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 1985:341.

19. Gentry MJ, Confer AW: Comparison of the toxic and antigenic properties of single bovine isolates of Pasteurella haemolytica representing five serotypes and an untypable strain. Proc 67th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 1986:152.

20. Craven RC, Confer AW, Gentry MJ: Clonings and Expression of Pasteurella haemolytica antigens. Proc 68th Ann Mtg Amer Soc Microbiol, Atlanta, GA, 1987:D-122.

21. Weldon SK, Craven RC, Confer AW, Gentry MJ: Expression of Pasteurella haemolytica antigens in Escherichia coli using Lambda GT-11. Proc Amer Soc Microbiol, Atlanta, GA, 1987:D-121.

22. Confer AW, Panciera RJ: Immunity to pneumonic bovine Pasteurellosis. 124th Ann Mtg American Veterinary Medicine Assoc, Chicago, IL, 1987:167.

23. Confer AW, Panciera RJ: Bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis. An update on the immunity and resistance to Pasteurella haemolytica. XXIII World Veterinary Congress, Montreal, Canada, 1987:10.2.2.

24. Clinkenbeard KD, Timko A, Mosier D, Confer AW: Effects of Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin on cultured bovine lymphocytes. Proc 68th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 1987:40.

25. Kiorpes AL, Collins MT, Traul DL, Goerke TP, Gentry MJ, Confer AW, Baumann L: Immune response of sheep to a modified-live Pasteurella haemolytica vaccine. Proc 69th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 1988:207.

26. Clinkenbeard KD, Boon AW, Mosier D, Confer AW: Effects of Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin (LKT) on isolated bovine neutrophils (PMNs). Proc 69th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 1988:358.

27. Clinkenbeard KD, Mosier DA, Confer AW: Role of cell swelling and Ca+2-dependence of cytolysis caused by Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin (LKT). Proc 69th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 1988:359.

28. Chae CH, Gentry MJ, Anderson GA, Confer AW: Resistance to host defense mechanisms afforded by capsular material of Pasteurella haemolytica, serotype 1. Proc 69th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 1988:363.

29. Confer AW, Panciera RJ, Mosier DA: Serum antibody responses of cattle to carbohydrate antigens of Pasteurella haemolytica serotype 1. Proc 69th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 1988:365.


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30. Mosier DA, Confer AW, Simons KR, Panciera RJ, Clinkenbeard KD: Pasteurella haemolytica antigens associated with resistance to pneumonic pasteurellosis. Proc 69th Annual Meeting of CRWAD Chicago, IL, 1988:367.

31. Confer AW: The pathogenesis of bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis. Proc 107th Annual Meeting of the Iowa Veterinary Medical Association, Des Moines, IA, 1989:83-86.

32. Confer AW: Immunity to bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis. Proc 107th Annual Meeting of the Iowa Veterinary Medical Association, Des Moines, IA, 1989: 101-103.

33. Confer AW: Molecular aspects of virulence of Pasteurella haemolytica. Proc. Int'l. Conference on Haemophilus, Actinobacillus, and Pasteurella, Guelph, Canada, 1989:3:2.

34. Clinkenbeard KD, Mosier DA, Confer AW: Cytolytic mechanism of Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin. Int'l. Conf. on the HAP Group of Organisms, Guelph, Canada, 1989:44.

35. Mosier DA, Weldon SK, Craven RC, Confer AW: Potential immunologic importance of a Pasteurella haemolytica antigen cloned and expressed with lambda gt 11. Int'l. Conf. on the HAP Group of Organisms, Guelph, Canada, 1989:53.

36. Morton RJ, Confer AW, Panciera RJ: Vaccination of cattle with outer membrane protein enriched fractions of Pasteurella haemolytica. Proc 71st Annual meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 1990;284.

37. Murphy GL, Whitworth LC, Confer AW: Analysis of multiple genes encoding 29 kDa membrane proteins of Pasteurella haemolytica. Proc 72nd Annual meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 1991:91.

38. Murphy GL, Whitworth LC, Confer AW: Molecular analysis of tandem, multiple genes encoding 30 kDa membrane proteins of Pasteurella haemolytica. Proc 92nd General Meeting of Amer Soc Microbiol, 1992.

39. Fulton RW, Confer AW, Burge LJ: Serological responses by cattle vaccinated with modified live and inactivated viral and Pasteurella haemolytica vaccines: onset and duration of serum antibodies. Proc 73rd Annual meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 1992;232.

40. Dabo SM, Styre D, Confer AW, Murphy GL: Expression, purification, and immunologic analysis of Pasteurella haemolytica A1 28-30 kDa lipoproteins. Proc 74th Annual meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 1993.

41. Fulton RW, Confer AW, Burge LJ, Mock RE, d'Offay JM: Antibody response by calves after vaccination with commercial vaccines containing viral and Pasteurella haemolytica immunogens. Proc 74th Annual meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 1993:238.

42. Confer AW, Clinkenbeard KD, Murphy GL: Pathogenesis and virulence of Pasteurella haemolytica in cattle; an analysis of current knowledge and future approaches. Proc HAP94, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1994.

43. Dabo SM, Confer AW, Styre D, Murphy GL: Expression, purification and immunologic analysis of 3 Pasteurella haemolytica A1 28-30 kDa lipoproteins. Proc Virulence Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogens, Ames, IA, 1994:25.

44. Morton RJ, Simons KR, Confer AW: Comparison of the major outer membrane proteins of Pasteurella haemolytica serotypes 1-15. Proc Virulence Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogens, Ames, IA, 1994:26.

45. Morton RJ, Confer AW, Mosier DA, Simons KR: Outer membrane protein antigens of Pasteurella haemolytica associated with resistance to pneumonic pasteurellosis. Proc 75th Ann Mtg of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 1994:219.

46. Mosier D, Panciera RJ, Rogers D, Uhlich G, Butine M, Confer A: Comparison of serologic responses and protection induced by a killed and a modified-live Pasteurella vaccine. HAP96, Acapulco, Mexico, 1996.

47. Gatto NT, Estes DM, Mann FA, Confer AW, Murphy GL: Experimental pneumonic pasteurellosis in SCID-bo-mice: challenge with wild-type and leukotoxin deficient Pasteurella haemolytica A1. HAP96, Acapulco, Mexico, 1996.

48. Dabo SM, Confer AW, Murphy GL: Outer membrane proteins of bovine Pasteurella multocida serogroup A isolates. HAP96, Acapulco, Mexico, 1996.

49. Clarke CR, Confer AW, Mosier DA: In vivo effect of Pasteurella haemolytica infection on leukocyte morphology. Proceedings Annual Meeting ACVIM, Orlando, FL, 1997.


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50. Dabo SM, Debey BM, Montelongo M, Confer AW: Detection of genomic DNA restriction site heterogeneity in bovine Pasteurella multocida isolates by the use of an rRNA probe. Proceedings Annual Meeting of 78th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, 1997: 193

51. Li J, Clinkenbeard KD, Confer AW: Lipopolysaccharide acts as an amphiphilic molecule to stabilize Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin. Proceedings of 78th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, 1997:182

52. Fulton RW, Burge LJ, Saliki JT, d’Offay JM, Confer AW, Helman RG, Bolin SR: Prevalence of bovine viral diarrhea virus biotypes and genotypes in diagnostic laboratory accessions: Clinical and necropsy samples from cattle. Proceedings Annual Meeting of American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, 1998.

53. Dabo SM, Montelongo M, Lu YS, Confer AW. PCR Fingerprinting, Whole Cell and Membrane Profiles for Pasteurella multocida Isolates from Rabbits. Proceedings 79th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, 1998: 140

54. Fulton RW, d’Offay JM, Saliki JT, Burge LJ, Helman RG, Confer AW, Bolin SR. Nested RT-PCR for typing ruminant pestiviruses: BVDV & Border disease virus. Proceedings 79th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, 1998: 163

55. Bowersock TL, HogenEsch H, Confer A, Tzu-Chi R, Rebelatto M, Guimond PM, Kidane A, Chester ST, Martin S, Gibson J, McKenzie A, Grimm S, Jaqua M. Immune responses in cattle following oral administration of outer membrane proteins and 1-ShotTM vaccine in two different oral formulations of alginate microspheres. Proceedings 80th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, 119,1999

56. Confer AW, Suckow MA, Miloscio L, Dabo SM, Montelongo M. Intranasal Vaccination of Rabbits with Pasteurella multocida A:3 OMPs and IROMPs. Proceedings 80th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, 187, 1999.

57. Guthrie CA, Fulton RW, Confer AW. Antibiotic administration and vaccination with modified Pasteurella haemolytica and multocida vaccine in calves. Bovine Proceedings, 32; 256 – 257, 1999.

58. Gatto NT, Dabo SM, Confer AW. Isolation and Characterization of a 28 kDa Immunogenic Outer Membrane Protein of Pasteurella multocida A:3. Proceedings 80th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, 186,1999.

59. Confer AW. Pathogenesis of pneumonic pasteurellosis: Host-bacterial interactions and prevention of disease. Proceedings 17th Symposium Comp Resp Soc, Harrison Hot Springs, B.C., Canada, 1999.

60. Carter JN, Gill DR, Stovall TC, Shriver JA, Berry BA, Choat WT, Confer AW, Smith RA, Claypool PL. Vitamin E supplementation in receiving diets: Effects on animal performance, medical treatment costs, and serum cholesterol concentrations. 2000 ASAS/ADSA Joint Meeting, Baltimore, 2000.

61. Fulton RF, Saliki JT, Confer AW, Burge LJ, Purdy CW, Briggs RE, Duff GC, Loan RW. Bovine viral diarrhea virus infections in calves from auction markets and a ranch. Proceedings Annual Meeting of American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Birmingham, AL, 2000

62. Confer AW. An update on bovine bacterial pneumonias. Proc. American College of Veterinary Pathologists, Amelia Island, FL, 2000.

63. Carter JN, Gill DR, Confer AW. Effects of vitamin E supplementation on performance and health of newly received feedlot cattle. Am Soc Anim Sci, Midwest Sect Meeting, (abstract published J. Anim. Sci), Des Moines, IA, 2000

64. Carter JN, Stovall TC, Gill DR, Confer AW, Smith RA, Ball RL. Feeding TascoTM in the diets of transit-stressed feedlot cattle. Proc Land O’ Lakes/Farmland Industries TascoTM Summary, Kansas City, MO, 2000

65. Fulton RW, Saliki JT, Confer AW, Purdy CW, Briggs RE, Ridpath JF, Duff GC, Loan RW, Step, DL, Burge LJ. Bovine viral diarrhea virus infections in commingled and transported calves: Fall 2000 study and summary of a three-year study. Proceedings AABP, 112, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2001.


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66. Fulton RW, Cook BJ, Step, DL, Confer AW, Saliki JT, Welsh RD, Blood KS. Evaluation of vaccinations of calves and their impact on feedlot performance: Assessment of a retained ownership program. Proceedings AABP, 105, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2001.

67. Carter JN, Meredith GL, Gill DR, Confer AW. Comparison of Acute Phase Protein Responses of Cattle in Naturally Acquired Respiratory Disease: Relationships to Vitamin E Supplementation and Antimicrobial Therapy. Proceedings AABP, 108, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2001.

68. Dabo SN, Confer AW. Cloning, sequencing and characterization of the filamentous hemagglutinin-like gene of Pasteurella multocida A:3. Proceedings 101st General Meeting Amer. Soc. Microbiol. B-44 Orlando, FL, 2001

69. Dabo SN, Confer AW. Cloning, sequencing and expression of a Pasteurella multocida A:3 gene encoding an OmpA-like protein. Proceedings 101st General Meeting Amer. Soc. Microbiol. H-68, Orlando, FL, 2001

70. Caudell D, Confer AW, Fulton R, Berry A, Saliki A. Diagnosis of infectious canine hepatitis virus (CAV-1) infection in puppies with encephalopathy. Proceedings 52nd Annual Mtg. American College of Veterinary Pathologists, 49. Salt Lake City, UT, 2001

71. Prado ME, Dabo SM, Confer AW. Cloning and characterization of HasR gene homologue from Pasteurella multocida A:3. Proceedings of HAP2002, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2002.

72. Blackwood ER, Ayalew S, Confer AW. Molecular and Immunological Analysis of Outer Membrane Protein PlpE from Mannheimia haemolytica serotypes 1, 2, and 6. 83th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, 93, St. Louis, MO, 2002.

73. Lasarsky E, Fulton RW, Confer AW, Saliki JT, Briggs RE, Huchzermeier R. Bovine coronavirus infections in cattle: detection in nasal swabs by antigen capture ELISA and RT-PCR. 83th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, 98, St. Louis, MO, 2002.

74. Confer AW. Appropriate Usage of Antibiotics for Disease Control. Proceedings 2003 ASAS/ADSA Midwestern Regional Meeting, Des Moines, IA, 2003

75. Dabo SM, Confer AW, Quijano-Blast, RA. Identification of Bartonella henselae fibronectin binding proteins. Proceedings 103rd Annual Meeting of American Society of Microbiology, Washington, DC. 2003

76. Dabo SM, Confer AW, Quijano-Blast, RA. Pasteurella multocida OmpA as a potential adherence factor. Proceedings 103rd Annual Meeting of American Society of Microbiology, Washington, DC. 2003

77. Fulton RW, Blood KS, Panciera RJ, Confer AW, Ridpath JF, Saliki JT, Welsh RD, Johnson BJ. Respiratory Disease in Feedlot Cattle: Isolation of Infectious Agents and Lung Lesions in Fatal Feedlot Cases. Proceedings Annual Meeting of American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Richmond, VA. 2003

78. Confer AW. Actinobacillus equuli Virulence Factors and Host Immunity; Lessons from Its Bovine Cousin. Comparative Respiratory Society Forum. Proceedings ACVIM Forum, Charlotte, NC. 2003

79. Confer AW. Pathogenesis of Bovine Bacterial Pneumonia. Food Animal Forum. Proceedings ACVIM Forum, Charlotte, NC. 2003

80. Prado ME, Confer AW. Pasteurella multocida: From virulence factors to potential immunogens. Food Animal Forum. Proceedings ACVIM Forum, Charlotte, NC. 2003

81. Fulton RW, Step DL, Johnson BJ, Ridpath JF, Saliki1 JT, Confer AW, Kellenberger JL Bovine viral diarrhea virus type 2 persistent infections in BVDV1a and BVDV2 vaccinated breeding herd. 84th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 2003.

82. Fulton RW, Cook BJ, Blood KS, Payton ME, Step DL, Confer AW, Saliki JT, Welsh RD, Burge LJ. Evaluation of health status of calves entering a feedyard and role in feedyard performance. 84th Annual Meeting of CRWAD, Chicago, IL, 2003.

83. Fulton, R.W., Briggs, R.E., Ridpath, J.F., Saliki, J.T., Johnson, B.J., Confer, A.W., Brodersen, B.W., Smith, D.R., Step, D.L., Sawyer, J.: Protection by Prior Vaccination with Modified Live Virus (MLV) Bovine Viral Diarrhea Vaccine and Subsequent Exposure to Persistently Infected Calves. 46th Annual Meeting of AAVLD. October 11-12, 2003. San Diego, CA.


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84. Fulton, R.W., Blood, K.S., Panciera, R.J., Confer, A.W., Ridpath, J.F., Saliki, J.T., Welsh, R.D., Johnson, B. J.: Respiratory Disease in Feedlot Cattle: Isolation of Infectious Agents and Lung Lesions in Fatal Feedlot Cases. 46th Annual Meeting of AAVLD. October 11-12, 2003. San Diego, CA.

85. DePra HA, Cranston JJ, Step DL, Gill DR, Krehbiel CR, Confer AW. Effect of commingling ranch cattle with cattle from multiple sources on receiving health and performance. Proc. Plains Nutrition Council, April 15-16, 2004. San Antonio, TX.

86. Confer AW, Fulton RW, Step DL, Johnson BJ, Ridpath JF. Viral antigen distribution in the respiratory tract of cattle persistently infected with bovine viral diarrhea virus subtype 2a. 47th Annual Meeting AAVLD. Greensboro, NC, 2004

87. Fulton RW, Ridpath JF, Ore S, Saliki JT, Burge LJ, Confer AW. Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) Subtypes in Diagnostic Laboratory Accessions from Clinical and Necropsy Cases: Distribution of BVDV1a, 1b, and 2a Subtypes. 47th Annual Meeting AAVLD. Greensboro, NC, 2004

88. Dabo SM, Anderson BE, Confer AW, Gupta S. Expression, Purification and Binding Activity of B. henselae Pap31. Proceedings 105th Annual Meeting of American Society of Microbiology, Atlanta, GA. 2005

89. Ayalew S, Blackwood ER, Confer AW. Sequence diversity of the immunogenic outer membrane lipoprotein PlpE from Mannheimia haemolytica serotypes 1, 2, and 6. Proceedings 105th Annual Meeting of American Society of Microbiology, Atlanta, GA. 2005

90. Fulton RW, Hessman B, Johnson BJ, Ridpath JF, Saliki JT, Burge LJ, Confer AW, Payton ME. Bovine viral diarrhea viruses (BVDV) in the feedlot: Prevalence of persistent infections, utilization of diagnostic tests, and distribution of BVDV subtypes 1a, 1b, 2a. Proceedings American Association of Bovine Practitioners, Salt Lake City, UT, 2005

91. Ritchey JW, Confer AW. Pathology and rock n’ roll. Proceedings American College of Veterinary Pathologists, Boston, MA, 2005

92. Ritchey JW, Confer AW. Enhancing voluntary participation in gross rounds. Proceedings American College of Veterinary Pathologists, Boston, MA, 2005

93. Confer AW, Ayalew S, Panciera RJ, Montelongo M. Recombinant Mannheimia haemolytica serotype 1 outer membrane protein PlpE enhances commercial M. haemolytica vaccine-induced resistance against serotype 6 challenge. ASM Conference on Pasteurellaceae; Kohala Coast, Big Island, Hawaii, October 23-26, 2005, # 05-A-25-ASM

94. Trojan B, Ayalew S, Newton J, Montelongo M, Confer AW. Mucosal and Systemic Antibody Responses of Rabbits after Intranasal Vaccination with Mannheimia haemolytica Recombinant Outer Membrane Lipoprotein PlpE or Native Leukotoxin. 106th Annual Meeting of American Society of Microbiology, Orlando, FL. 2006

95. Confer A. Pathogenesis of pulmonary infections with Pasteurellaceae. Proceedings of the 24th Symposium of the Veterinary Comparative Respiratory Society. Jena, Germany, 2006.

96. York P, Confer A, Ritchey J. Suppurative myositis in a dog infected with Clostridium ramosum. Proceedings American College of Veterinary Pathologists, Tucson, AZ, 2006

97. Trojan B, Ayalew S, Montelongo M, Confer AW. Intranasal Vaccination of Dairy Calves with Mannheimia haemolytica Chimeric PlpE-LKT (SAC89). 107th annual meeting of American Society of Microbiology, Toronto, Canada, May 07

98. Ayalew S, Stevens KD, Montelongo M, Confer AW. Mannheimia haemolytica Chimeric Protein Vaccine Composed of the Major Surface-Exposed Epitope of Outer Membrane Lipoprotein PlpE and the Neutralizing Epitope of Leukotoxin. 107th annual meeting of American Society of Microbiology, Toronto, Canada, May 07

99. Smith C, Boyette R, Montelongo M, Ayalew S, Holyoak GR, Confer AW. Serum Antibodies in Mares and Foals to Actinobacillus equuli Whole Cells, Outer Membrane Proteins, and Aqx Toxin. 107th annual meeting of American Society of Microbiology, Toronto, Canada, May 07

100. Fulton RW, Ridpath JF, Johnson BJ, Hessman BE, Whitley EM, Cook BJ, Kapil S, Burge LJ, Confer AW, Step DL. Bovine Viral Diarrhea Viruses (BVDV) in Beef Breeding Herds and Feedlots: Diversity


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of BVDV Subtype in Persistently Infected Cattle. Proceedings of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners Annual Meeting. September 20-22, 2007. Vancouver, B.C.

101. Ayalew A, Confer AW. Immunoproteomic Approach to Identify and Characterize Immunologically Important Mannheimia haemolytica Outer Membrane Proteins: OmpC. USDA CREES Project Directors’ Meeting, Chicago, Dec 07, A4.

102. Burciaga-Robles LO, Krehbiel CR, Step DL, Montelongo M, Confer AW, Gilliam JN, Holland BP, Goad CL. Effects of Mannheimia haemolytica challenge on blood gas, oxygen consumption and net splanchnic flux of volatile fatty acids in fed or fasted steers. American Society of Animal Science Annual Meeting, 2008

103. Fulton RW, Blood KS, Panciera RJ, Payton M, Ridpath JF, Saliki JF, Burge LJ, Confer AW, Welsh RD, Johnson BJ, Reck A. Lung Pathology and Infectious Agents in Fatal Feedlot Pneumonias and Relationship with Animal and Treatment Information. AABP Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, 2008.

104. Taylor JD, Fulton RW, Lehenbauer TW, Dabo SM, Confer AW. Molecular Characterization of Pasteurella multocida Isolates from Fatal Cases of Bovine Respiratory Disease. AABP Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, 2008

105. Step DL, Krehbiel CR, Fulton RW, Confer AW. Effects on Performance and Health Following Exposure to Persistently Infected BVDV Calves. Proceedings Southwest Veterinary Conference, 2008

106. Confer AW, Ayalew S, Montelongo M, Step DL, Wray JH, Hansen RD, Panciera RJ. Immunity of cattle following vaccination of calves with a Mannheimia haemolytica Chimeric PlpE-LKT (SAC89) protein. International Society of Pasteurellaceae Conference, Sorrento, Italy, October 2008. P403

107. Ayalew S, Confer AW. Immunoproteomic approach to identify and characterize immunologically important Mannheimia haemolytica outer membrane proteins. International Society of Pasteurellaceae Conference, Sorrento, Italy, October 2008. P402

108. Ayalew S, Confer AW. Immunoproteomic approach to identify and characterize immunologically important Mannheimia haemolytica outer membrane proteins. USDA CSREES Project Directors’ Meeting, Chicago, Dec 08

109. Confer AW, Dabo SM, Ayalew S. Overview of Current Immunity to Pasteurella multocida and Mannheimia haemolytica in Bovine Respiratory Disease. CRWAD, Chicago, Dec 08

110. Ayalew S, Confer AW. Immunoproteomic approach to identify and characterize immunologically important Mannheimia haemolytica outer membrane proteins. 109th Annual Meeting, American Society of Microbiology, May 2009.

111. Confer AW. Comparative Pathology of and Pathogenic Mechanisms in Bovine Bacterial Pneumonia. Proceedings, ACVIM, Montreal, June 2009

112. Confer AW. Immunity against Mannheimia haemolytica: Current knowledge and New Approaches. Proceedings, ACVIM, Montreal, June 2009

113. Confer AW. Update on Bacterial Pathogenesis in BRD. Proceedings, BRD Symposium, Colorado Springs, CO, August 2009.

114. Confer AW. Immunity to Bacterial Respiratory Pathogens, Now What? Proceedings, Academy of Veterinary Consultants, Summer Symposium, Colorado Springs, CO, August 2009

115. Ayalew S, Confer AW, Shrestha B. A Preliminary LC-MS.MS Analysis of the Mannheimia haemolytica Secretome. USDA CSREES Project Directors’ Meeting, Chicago, Dec 09

116. Fulton RW, Step DL, Wahrmund J, Burge LJ, Eberle R, d’Offay JM, Confer AW, Cook B, Burken D, Payton M. Bovine Coronavirus Infections in Transported Commingled Beef Cattle and Sole Source Ranch Cattle. Annual Meeting AABP, Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 2010.

117. Cramer SD, Miller AD, DeMars PL, Confer AW, Summers BA. A Neurodegenerative disorder in a domestic cat resembling frontotemporal lobar degeneration. 61st Annual Meeting ACVP, Baltimore, MD, 2010

118. Ayalew S, Shrestha B, Montelongo M, Confer AW. Identification and immunogenicity of Mannheimia haemolytica S1 outer membrane lipoprotein PlpF. USDA NIFA Project Directors’ Meeting, Washington DC, April 2011.


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119. Ayalew S, Shrestha B, Montelongo M, Confer AW. Identification and Immunogenicity of Mannheimia haemolytica S1 Outer Membrane Lipoprotein PlpF. Proceedings, International Pasteurellaceae Conference, Helsingor, Denmark, 2011; No. 41387.

120. Ayalew S, Shrestha B, Payton ME, Confer AW. A Rapid Microtiter Plate Method for Determining Serum Complement-Mediated Killing of Mannheimia haemolytica . Proceedings, International Pasteurellaceae Conference, Helsingor, Denmark, 2011; No. 41388.

121. Ayalew S, Confer AW, Shrestha B, Wilson AE, Montelongo M. Proteomic Analysis and Immunogenicity of Mannheimia haemolytica Vesicles. Proceedings 2012 ASM meeting, San Diego

122. Confer AW. Mannheimia haemolytica Immunity: Are we there yet? Proceedings 2012 CRWAD Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL

123. Confer AW, Ayalew S. Mannheimia haemolytica chimeric protein vaccine for delivery of multiple outer membrane protein and leukotoxin antigens. Proceedings USDA AFRI Project Directors meeting.2012, Chicago, IL.

124. Confer AW. Mannheimia haemolytica immunity. Are we there yet? Keynote address, Respiratory disease Section. Proceedings Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases annual meeting 2012, Chicago, IL

125. Confer AW. Bovine respiratory disease – Predisposing factors for bacterial pneumonia. Canadian Society of Animal Science and the Alberta Meat and Livestock Agency symposium, Banff, Alberta, Canada 2013

126. Ayalew S, Confer AW. Mannheimia haemolytica IgA-specific Proteases. Proceedings International Pasteurellaceae Conference 2014. Prato, Italy

127. Confer AW. Respiratory Disease Management in Livestock- New Challenges and knowledge Gaps. What Is Critical on the Horizon? ADSA®-ASAS-CSAS JOINT ANNUAL MEETING. 2014 Kansas City, MO

128. Wilson BK, Zanton GI, Step DL, Fulton RW, Confer AW, Maxwell CL, Gifford CA, Krehbiel CR, Richards CJ. Effect of trace mineral supplementation on clinical signs, immune response variables, and mineral balance of calves following exposure to bovine viral diarrhea virus and subsequent Mannheimia haemolytica infection. ADSA®-ASAS-CSAS JOINT ANNUAL MEETING. 2014 Kansas City, MO

129. Confer AW, Taylor JD. Pasteurella multocida in bovine respiratory disease: What we know and what we don’t know. Summer Conference, Academy of Veterinary Consultants, Denver, CO, 2014

130. Ridpath JF, Confer AW, Fulton RW, Falkenberg SM, Bauermann F. Bovine respiratory disease model based on dual infections with infection with bovine viral diarrhea virus and bovine corona virus. Proceedings 58th Ann Conf AAVLD, 2015

131. Confer AW, Taylor JD, Snider TA, Spire MA. Pulmonary lesions and clinical disease in Histophilus somni-challenged calves treated with one of two macrolides, tildipirosin or tulathromycin. Proceedings World Buiatrics Congress, Dublin, Ireland, 2016

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