Paula Cray

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Bio

Dr. Paula J. Fedorka-Cray is currently the Head of the Population Health and Pathobiology Department at the College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC where the mission of the Department is to recruit, train, inspire, and graduate Doctors of Veterinary Medicine of exemplary knowledge, skill, and character. Formerly the Research Leader of the USDA-ARS Bacterial Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Resistance Research Unit in Athens, GA, Dr. Fedorka-Cray spent over 23 years in the government studying the ecology, pathogenesis, and antimicrobial resistance of food borne pathogens.

She is most proud of her work as the Director of the animal arm of the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) from its inception in 1996 through 2012 and the USDA VetNet program from 2004 through 2012. She holds a BS degree from the Pennsylvania State University, a MS degree from North Dakota State University (Bacteriology), a MAS degree from The Johns Hopkins University (Administration) and a PhD from the University of Nebraska Medical School (Veterinary Medical Sciences Interdisciplinary Area – Microbiology/Immunology). She has received 17 awards, over 200 invited presentations and authored or co-authored more than 180 peer reviewed publications.

Area(s) of Expertise

Global Health, Infectious Diseases

Publications

• Antimicrobial Resistance Characteristics of Fecal Escherichia coli and Enterococcus Species in US Goats: 2019 National Animal Health Monitoring System Enteric Study , FOODBORNE PATHOGENS AND DISEASE (2024)
• Characteristics of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli isolated from retail meat products in North Carolina , PLOS ONE (2024)
• Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterizations of Antimicrobial-Resistant Escherichia coli Isolates from Diverse Retail Meat Samples in North Carolina During 2018-2019 , FOODBORNE PATHOGENS AND DISEASE (2024)
• Prevalence, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Diversity of Campylobacter Isolated from US Goat Feces: 2019 NAHMS Survey , FOODBORNE PATHOGENS AND DISEASE (2024)
• Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats Genotyping of Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella Heidelberg Strains Isolated From the Poultry Production Chain Across Brazil , FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY (2022)
• Detection and molecular characterization of Salmonella species on US goat operations , PREVENTIVE VETERINARY MEDICINE (2022)
• Genomics of human and chicken Salmonella isolates in Senegal: Broilers as a source of antimicrobial resistance and potentially invasive nontyphoidal salmonellosis infections , PLOS ONE (2022)
• Evidence of sheep and abattoir environment as important reservoirs of multidrug-resistant Salmonella and extended-spectrum beta-lactamase Escherichia coli , International Journal of Food Microbiology (2021)
• Identification of CTX-M type ESBL E. coli from sheep and their abattoir environment using whole-genome sequencing , Pathogens (2021)
• Resistome of a carbapenemase-producing novel ST232 Klebsiella michiganensis isolate from urban hospital effluent in South Africa , JOURNAL OF GLOBAL ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE (2021)

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