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Associate Professor John House

Associate Professor John House

Director Bovine Clinical Services
Faculty of Veterinary Science, University Veterinary Centre
Werombi Rd,
Private Mailbag 4
Narellan Delivery Centre, Narellan NSW, 2567
Phone: +61 2 2 46550777
Fax: +61 2 46551212
Mob: +61 2 0421-054-044
Email:jkhouse@camden.usyd.edu.au

Qualifications

  • BSc Murdoch University 1984
  • BVMS (Hons) Murdoch University 1986 Diplomate of the American
    College of Veterinary Internal Medicine 1994
  • PhD University of California Davis 1997

Professional Distinctions

  • 1994 Ray Bankowski Memorial Scholarship, graduate research award.
  • 1995 Jastro Shields Research Scholarship.

Teaching Areas

  • Ruminant Health and Production
  • Ruminant Clinical Rotations

Administration

  • Director Bovine Clinical Practice

Research

  • Salmonella epidemiology, diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines.
  • Infectious diseases of cattle.
  • Waste management and antimicrobial efficacy and resistance.

Research Interests

John completed his BVSc degree at Murdoch University, Western Australia in 1986 and after two years in private practice relocated to the University of California, Davis, where he held positions of Resident, Large Animal Medicine, Lecturer and finally, Clinical Associate Professor. He was appointed as Associate Professor in Bovine Health at the University of Sydney in 2002.

John’s research efforts have focused on disease control and enhancing farm productivity through the conduct of epidemiological studies and the development of diagnostic tests and vaccines. Much of this work has been directed at prevention of salmonellosis in intensive ruminant production systems. Current projects include the evaluation of DNA adenine methylase attenuated salmonella vaccines in cattle, a national survey of bovine pink eye in Australia looking at the types and virulence attributes of isolates from around the country, epidemiological studies of environmental mastitis pathogens on NSW dairy farms, and a study evaluating different approaches to assisted reproduction in dairy cattle.

Selected Publications

  1. 1999 Angelos SM, Smith BP, George LW, House JK, Van Metre DC, Fecteau G, Thacker V, and Angelos J. Approach to treatment of hypernatremia in acidotic neonatal calves. J Am Vet Med Assoc 214:1364-1367.
  2. 2000 Galland JC, House JK, Hyatt DR, Hawkins LL, Anderson NV, Irwin CK, Smith BP. Prevalence of Salmonella spp. in beef feeder steers as determined by bacterial culture and salmonella ELISA serology. Vet. Micro. 76:143-151.
  3. 2001 House JK, Smith BP, OConnell K, VanMetre DC. Isotype specific antibody responses of cattle to Salmonella dublin lipopolysaccharide and porin following Salmonella dublin vaccination and acute and chronic infection. J. Vet. Diag. Invest. 13:213-218.
  4. 2001 Pusterla N, Anderson RJ, House JK, Pusterla JB, DeRock E, Madigan JE. Susceptibility of cattle to infection with Ehrlicia equi and the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 218:1160-1162.
  5. 2001 Anderson RJ, House JK, Smith BP, Kinde H, Walker RL, Vande Steeg BJ, Breitmeyer RE. Epidemiologic and biological characteristics of Salmonellosis in three dairy herds. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 219:310-322.
  6. 2001 Dueger, E. L., J. K. House, D. M. Heithoff, and M. J. Mahan. 2001. Salmonella DNA adenine methylase mutants elicit protective immune responses to homologous and heterologous serovars in chickens. Infect. Immun. 69: 7950-7954.
  7. 2001 House JK, Ontiveros M, Blackmer N, Dueger EL, Fitchhorn J, McArthur GR, Smith BP. Evaluation of an autogenous salmonella bacterin and a modified live Salmonella cholerasuis vaccine on a commercial dairy farm. Am J Vet Res 62:1897-1902.
  8. 2001 House JK, Smith BP, Kamiya D. Serological distinction of bovine Salmonella carriers from vaccinated and acutely infected cows. J Vet Diag Invest 13:483-488
  9. 2002 Calf nutrition. Rager K, House JK, DePeters E. Comp.Cont Ed. Pract Vet. 24:S82-S91.
  10. 2003 Dueger EL. House JK. Heithoff DM. Mahan MJ. Salmonella DNA adenine methylase mutants prevent colonization of newly hatched chickens by homologous and heterologous serovars. International J Food Micro 80:153-9