We have a number of active research and outreach projects and several pending proposals. Our current areas of active research and outreach include:

• Benchmarking antimicrobial usage (AMU) on dairy farms and determining how AMU is associated with dissemination of resistant pathogens and their genetic elements on farms.
• Development of antimicrobial stewardship team on individual farms.
• Impact of use of critically important antimicrobials on development and dissemination of resistance.
• Performing clinical trials to determine when antimicrobial usage should be used for treatment of mastitis.
• Identifying methods to enhance the ability of the cow to mount an effective immune response to infection, thus resulting in spontaneous bacteriological clearance.
• Understanding the role of endemic disease on response to bacterial infections.