2010 CVM News: Model or meal?

dc.contributor.author	Office of Communications
dc.date.accessioned	2018-08-23T18:18:42Z
dc.date.available	2018-08-23T18:18:42Z
dc.date.issued	2010-03-25
dc.description.abstract	This news item is about: Why in the world are the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding a veterinary epidemiologist to study Clostridium difficile (CDI), the leading cause of infectious diarrhea in human hospitals? Yrjo Grohn, Professor of Epidemiology and Chair of the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, has traditionally conducted research on common food-borne pathogens, such as salmonella, listeria, and e-coli, in farm animal populations. Like many food supply epidemiologists, Grohn used mathematical modeling to understand the spread of these infectious agents as a means of optimizing food production systems. His work helped producers operate efficiently while keeping the risk of economic loss and zoonotic transmission (animal to human) within acceptable limits. Now, Grohn and his colleagues have found an important new application for their empirical animal models – the study of infectious disease in human populations.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/58428
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine
dc.subject	Cornell University. College of Veterinary Medicine -- Periodicals.; Grohn, Yrjo
dc.title	2010 CVM News: Model or meal?
dc.type	article

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