1109 Experiment St. - Melton Building - Griffin, GA 30223 USA - PH (770) 228-7284 - FAX (770) 229-3216
Dr. Walid Alali
Assistant Professor

Center for Food Safety
Dept. Food Science & Technology
University of Georgia
Griffin, GA 30223-1797
Office Phone: (770) 467-6066
E-Mail:walali@uga.edu
Overview of Research Program
  
Analytical and molecular epidemiology of foodborne pathogens
Epidemiology of infectious disease organisms
Developing novel quantitative molecular approaches to food safety
Developing multivariate statistical models to adjust for dependency (i.e. clustering) among phenotypic and genotypic data
     
Publications  

Alali, W.Q., H.M. Scott, K.L. Christian, V.R. Fajt, R.B. Harvey, and D.B. Lawhorn. 2009. Relationship between level of antimicrobial use and resistance among Escherichia coli isolates from integrated multi-site cohorts of humans and swine. Prev. Vet. Med. 90:160-167.

Alali, W.Q., H.M. Scott, B. Norby, W. Gebreyes, and G.H. Loneragan. 2009. Quantification of the BlaCMY2 in feces from beef feedlot cattle administered three different doses of ceftiofur crystalline-free acid in a longitudinal controlled field trial. Foodborne Path. Dis. 6:917-924.

Alali, W.Q., H.M. Scott, R.B. Harvey, B. Norby, D.B. Lawhorn, and S.D. Pillai. 2008. Longitudinal study of antimicrobial resistance among Escherichia coli isolates from integrated multi-site cohorts of humans and swine. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74:3672-3681.

Beier, R.C., S.E. Duke, R.L. Ziprin, R.B. Harvey, M.E. Hume, T.L. Poole, H.M. Scott, L.D. Highfield, W.Q. Alali, K. Andrews, R.C. Anderson, and D.J. Nisbet. 2008. Antibiotic and disinfectant susceptibility profiles of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) isolated from community wastewater in Texas. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 80:188-194.

Vincent, V., H.M. Scott, R.B. Harvey, W.Q. Alali, and M.E. Hume. 2007. Novel surveillance of Salmonella enterica serotype Heidelberg epidemics in a closed community. Foodborne Path. Dis. 4:375-385.

Poole, T.L., M.E. Hume, L.D. Campbell, H.M. Scott, W.Q. Alali, and R.B. Harvey. 2005. Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium strains isolated from community wastewater from a semiclosed agri-food system in Texas. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 49:4382-4385.

Scott, H.M., L.D. Campbell, R.B. Harvey, K.M. Bischoff, W.Q. Alali, K.S. Barling, and R.C. Anderson. 2005. Patterns of antimicrobial resistance among commensal Escherichia coli isolated from integrated multi-site housing and worker cohorts of humans and swine. Foodborne Path. Dis. 2:24-37.

Alali, W.Q., J.M. Sargeant, T.G. Nagaraja, and B.M. DeBey. 2004. Effect of antibiotics on fecal shedding of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in pre-weaned calves. J. Anim. Sci. 82:2148-2152.