INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH

• Sponsoring Institution: Cooperating Schools of Veterinary Medicine
• Project Status: COMPLETE
• Funding Source: STATE
• Reporting Frequency: Annual
• Accession No.: 0219879
• Project Start Date: Aug 1, 2009
• Project End Date: Aug 1, 2014
• Program Code: [(N/A)]- (N/A)

Project Director
Grohn, YR.

Recipient Organization
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
(N/A)
ITHACA,NY 14853

Performing Department
Population Medicine And Diagnostic Sciences

Non Technical Summary
The purpose of this research is to investigate food borne pathogens and their role in food safety.

Animal Health Component

(N/A)

Research Effort Categories

Basic

(N/A)

Applied

(N/A)

Developmental

(N/A)

Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)	Subject of Investigation (SOI)	Field of Science (FOS)	Percent
308	3410	1170	10%
308	3310	1100	10%
311	3410	1170	10%
311	3310	1100	10%
722	3410	1170	10%
722	3310	1100	10%
712	3410	1170	20%
712	3310	1100	20%

Knowledge Area
311 - Animal Diseases; 722 - Zoonotic Diseases and Parasites Affecting Humans; 712 - Protect Food from Contamination by Pathogenic Microorganisms, Parasites, and Naturally Occurring Toxins; 308 - Improved Animal Products (Before Harvest);

Subject Of Investigation
3310 - Beef cattle, live animal; 3410 - Dairy cattle, live animal;

Field Of Science
1100 - Bacteriology; 1170 - Epidemiology;

Keywords

epidemiology

food safety

risk analysis

mathematical modeling

pre-harvest

processing

post-harvest

Goals / Objectives
To study infectious diseases using epidemiological methods.

Project Methods
Using statistical and mathematical techniques we will study risk factors and their relationship with the outcome disease or human risk.