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ARS Home Midwest Area Ames, Iowa National Animal Disease Center Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research People & Locations







Melissa  Monson
                        Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research

                        




                        
                        Research Microbiologist
                        Phone: (515) 337-7612
                        
                        
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                            ProjectsAnalysis of Genetic Factors that Increase Foodborne Pathogen Fitness, Virulence, and Antimicrobial Resistance Transfer, to Identify Interventions against Salmonella and Campylobacter in Food Animals
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                                                                    (D)Accession Number: 440948**Publications**
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                                                    will take you to the publication reprint.)A live, attenuated vaccine reduces the human foodborne pathogen Salmonella in commercial poultry

- (Abstract Only)Commercial vaccine provides cross-protection by reducing colonization of Salmonella enterica serovars Infantis and Hadar in turkeys
                                                        

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Bearson, S.M., Monson, M.S., Bearson, B.L., Whelan, S.J., Byrd Ii, J.A., Burciaga, S. 2024. Commercial vaccine provides cross-protection by reducing colonization of Salmonella enterica serovars Infantis and Hadar in turkeys. Vaccine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.12.054.Competitive exclusion of Salmonella colonization in chickens using a defined community of bacteria

- (Abstract Only)Detection of Salmonella in turkeys by cloacal swab in comparison to intestinal tissue prevalence and colonization

- (Abstract Only)Genomic and phenotypic comparison of two variants of multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Heidelberg isolated during the 2015-2017 multi-state outbreak in cattle
                                                        

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Burciaga, S., Trachsel, J.M., Sockett, D.C., Aulik, N.A., Monson, M.S., Anderson, C.L., Bearson, S.M. 2023. Genomic and phenotypic comparison of two variants of multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Heidelberg isolated during the 2015-2017 multi-state outbreak in cattle. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14: Article 1282832. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1282832.The immune cell landscape and response of Marek's disease resistant and susceptible chickens infected with Marek's disease virus
                                                        

- (Peer Reviewed Journal)Warren, W.C., Rice, E.S., Meyer, A., Hearn, C.J., Steep, A., Hunt, H.D., Monson, M.S., Lamont, S.J., Cheng, H.H. 2023. The immune cell landscape and response of Marek's disease resistant and susceptible chickens infected with Marek's disease virus. Scientific Reports. 13. Article 5355. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32308-x.Progress toward an immune cell atlas in the chicken

- (Abstract Only)Evaluating two live-attenuated vaccines against outbreak-associated Salmonella enterica serovar reading in turkeys

- (Abstract Only)Vaccination of turkeys against Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis: effects on the cecal microbiome and tissue colonization

- (Abstract Only)Low-path avian influenza infection induces distinct gene expression responses in vivo and in vitro in diverse chicken lines

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