Gary Smith
Professor of Population Biology and Epidemiology, Depts of Clinical Studies, NBC, School of Veterinary Medicine and Biostatistics & Epidemiology, School of Medicine

Microbiology, Virology and Parasitology Program

Address

Boucher House
New Bolton Center, 1692
382 W Street Rd
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Kennett Square, PA 19348-1692

Office tel.: 610 925- 6312
Fax: 610 925-8130
E-mail: garys@vet.upenn.edu

Link(s)

Dr. Smith's CSNBC Faculty Page

Dept of Clinical Studies - New Bolton Center, Section of Epidemiology and Public Health Page

Education

Oxford University, UK: BA Honors (Zoology), 1970.

Cambridge University, UK: BA Honors (Education), 1972.

York University, UK: DPhil (Parasite Ecology), 1978.

Research Interests

• Epidemiology of parasitic and infectious diseases
• Parasite population ecology
• Mathematical modeling of infectious and parasitic diseases of veterinary and medical importance
• Public health.

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Recent Publications

Dolente B.A., Beech J., Lindborg S., Smith G, (2005) Case Control Study of Thrombophlebitis in Horses in a Tertiary Care Hospital. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (in press).

Maslow JN. Brar I. Smith G. Newman GW. Mehta R. Thornton C. Didier P. (2003) Latent infection as a source of disseminated disease caused by organisms of the Mycobacterium avium complex in simian immunodeficiency virus-infected rhesus macaques. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 187(11):1748-55, Jun 1.

Courtney J. W., Dryden R. L., Montgomery J., Schneider B. S., Smith G. & Massung R. F. (2003) Molecular Characterization of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes scapularis Ticks from Pennsylvania. Journal of Clinical Microbiolology. 41: 1569-1573.

Cornell S.J., Isham V. S., Smith G. & Grenfell B. T. (2003) Spatial transmission, drug resistance and the spread of rare gene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 100: 7401-7405.

Bebak-Williams J., McAllister P. E., Smith G., Boston R. (2002) The effect of fish density and number of infectious fish on the survival of rainbow trout fry during epidemics of infectious pancreatic necrosis. Journal of Fish Diseases 25: 715-726.