Professor
Education:
Ph.D. – The Ohio State University – 1970
M.S. – The Ohio State University – 1966
B.S. – New Mexico State University - 1964
Courses Taught:
AS 447 - Dairy Herd Management.
Course Content
Grants & Awards:
Evaulation of flunixin for reliving pyrogenic response during clinical mastitis. Schering Plough. $80,000
Evaulation of specific immune responses and protection in dairy cows infected with Escherichia coli following administration of Streptococcus uberis/Escherichia coli vaccines. 2000. Pfizer Global Research and Developmen. $191,173.50
Gift in kind of 35 head of dairy cows plus progeny. 2000. Pharmacia and Upjohn, Inc. $58,760.
Publications:
Takemura, K., J.S. Hogan, and K.L. Smith. 2001. Growth responses of Escherichin coli to purfied immunoglobulin G from cows immunized with ferric citrate receptor FecA. J. Dairy Sci. 84(1):152.
Wise, A.J., J.S. Hogan, and K.L. Smith. 2001. Opsonic activity of serum and whey from cows immunized with Escherichin coli ferric citrate receptor. J. Dairy Sci. 84(1):152.
Wise, A.J., J.S. Hogan, and K.L. Smith. 2001. Opsonization of Escherichia colicultured in iron-repletet iron-delete media. J. Dairy Sci. 84(1):152.
Smith, K.L. 2001. Mastitis control in member contries: United States of America. Bulletin of the International Dairy Federation 367/2001. pp 41-45.
Smith, K.L. 2001. Us National Mastitis Council annual meeting- 2001. Bulletin of the International Dairy Federation 367/2001. pp 46.
Dr. Smith's research is in the areas of diagnosis, therapy, and control of bovine mastitis in dairy herds; natural factors of disease resistance associated with the bovine mammary gland; and environmental and nutritional factors associated with increased mastitis in dairy herds.