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Professor Department of Population Health & Infectious Diseases (joint appointed) Poultry Diagnostic Research Center 953 College Station Road Athens, Georgia 30602-4875 706.583.0797 e-mail: mdlee@uga.edu

 

Education:

Ph.D., Medical Microbiology, The University of Georgia, 1990.
M.S., Medical Microbiology, The University of Georgia, 1988.
D.V.M., Va. Md. Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, 1986.
B.S., Biology (major), Chemistry (minor), Virginia Tech, 1982.

 

Professional Associations:
Licensed by the Georgia Veterinary Board of Examiners
American Veterinary Medical Association
American Society for Microbiology
American Association of Avian Pathologists

 

Areas of Research Emphasis:
Molecular ecology and mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance.
Molecular ecology of intestinal bacterial communities.
Molecular epidemiology of food safety pathogens.

 

Publications:
Santos, F. B. O., B. W. Sheldon, A. A. Santos, Jr., P. R. Ferket, M. D. Lee, A. Petroso, and D. Smith. 2007. Determination of Ileum Microbial Diversity of Broilers Fed Triticale- or Corn-Based Diets and Colonized by Salmonella. Appl. Poult. Res. 16: 563-573.

Jingrang Lu, C. L. Hofacre, M. D. Lee. 2006. Emerging Technologies in Microbial Ecology Aid in Understanding the Complex Disease Necrotic Enteritis. J. Appl. Poult. Res. 15:145-153.

Margie D. Lee and Diane G. Newell. 2006. Campylobacter in Poultry: filling an ecological niche. Invited MiniReview, Avian Diseases 50:1-9.

Fairchild, A., M. D. Lee, and J. J. Maurer. 2006. PCR basics. p. 1-25. PCR Methods in Foods, Ed., Springer, New York, N.Y.

Lee, M.D., J. Lu, B. Harmon, C.L. Hofacre, and J.J. Maurer. Molecular basis for AGP effects in poultry. In: Antimicrobial growth promoters Where do we go from here? D. Barug, J. de Jong, A.K. Kies, and M.W.A. Verstegne, eds., Wageningen Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. pp. 149-164. 2006.

Idris, Umelaalim, J. Lu, M. Maier, S. Sanchez, C.L. Hofacre, B.G. Harmon, J.J. Maurer, and M.D. Lee. 2006. Dissemination of fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter within an integrated commercial poultry production system. Accepted by Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72:3441-3447.

Maurer, J. J. and M. D. Lee. 2005. Salmonella: virulence, stress response, and resistance. p.215-239. In Mansel Griffiths Ed., Understanding Pathogen Behavior: Virulence, Stress Response and Resistance, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, and Woodhead Publishing Limited, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Lee, M. D., and J. J. Maurer. 2005. Colibacillosis. P. 2221-2222. In C. M. Kahn, Ed., The Merck Veterinary Manual, 9th Edition, National Publishing Inc., Philadelphia, PA.

Lee, M. D., Avian Campylobacter Infection. 2005. In Merck Veterinary Manual, 9th edition, S. E. Aiello, Editor. Merck & Co., Inc. Whitehouse Station, NJ, pgs. 2214-16.

Lee, M.D. and J. Maurer. 2005. Avian Colibacillosis. In Merck Veterinary Manual, 9th edition. S. E. Aiello, Editor. Merck & CO. INC. Whitehouse Station, NJ, pgs. 2221-2.

Lee, M.D. Avian Campylobacter Infection. 2005. In Merck Veterinary Manual, 9th edition. S. E. Aiello, Editor. Merck & Co. Inc. Whitehouse Station, NJ, pgs. 2214-16

Cole, D., D.J.V. Drum, D.E. Stallknecht, D.G. White, M.D. Lee, B, S. Ayers, M. Sobsey, and J.J. Maurer. Free-Ranging Canada Geese as Environmental Vectors of Antimicrobial Resistance. Emerging Infectious Diseases 11:935-8.

Fairchild, A.S., J.L. Smith, U. Idris, J. Lu, S. Sanchez, L.B. Purvis, C. Hofacre, and M.D. Lee. Oral tetracycline administration in chickens and its effects on the intestinal community structure and the tet determinant carriage of commensal bacteria and Campylobacter jejuni. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71(10):5865-72.

Sanchez, S., S. Mizan, C. Quist, P. Schroder, M. Juneau, D. Dawe, B. Ritchie, and M. D. Lee. Serological response to Pasteurella multocida NanH sialidase in persistently colonized rabbits. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology 11:825-834, 2004.

Morales, C., M. D. Lee, C. Hofacre, J. J. Maurer. Detection of a Novel Virulence Gene and a Salmonella Virulence Homologue Among Escherichia coli Isolated from Broiler Chickens. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease 1: 160-165, 2004.
Keyes, K., M. D. Lee, and J. J. Maurer. 2003. Antibiotics: mode of action, mechanism of resistance and transfer. In M. Torrence and R. Isaacson Eds., Current Topics in Food Safety in Animal Agriculture, Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA.

Zimmer, M., H. Barnhardt, U. Idris, M. D. Lee. Detection of Campylobacter jejuni strains in the waterlines of a commercial broiler house and their relationship to the strains that colonized the chickens. Avian Diseases 47:101-7, 2003.

Lu. J., S. Sanchez, C. Hofacre, J. J. Maurer, B. G. Harmon, and M. D. Lee. Evaluation of broiler litter with reference to the microbial composition as assessed by using 16S rRNA and functional gene markers. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69:901-8, 2003.

Lu, J., U. Idris, B. Harmon, C. Hofacre, J.J. Maurer, M.D. Lee. Diversity and succession of the intestinal bacterial community of the maturing broiler chicken. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69:6816-24, 2003.

Mizan, S., M. D. Lee, B. G. Harmon, S. Tkalcic, and J. J. Maurer. Acquisition of antibiotic resistance plasmids by enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 within rumen fluid. Journal of Food Protection 65:1038-1040, 2002.

Bentley, A. P., M. H. Barton, M. D. Lee, N. A. Norton, J. N. Moore. 2002. Antimicrobial-induced endotoxin and cytokine activity in an in vitro model of septicemia in foals. American Journal of Veterinary Research 63:660-8.

Sanchez, S., M.D. Lee, B. G. Harmon, J.J. Maurer, M.P. Doyle. 2002. Animal Issues Associated with Escherichia coli O157. Journal of American Veterinary Medical Association 221:1122-6.

Sanchez, S., C. L. Hofacre, M.D. Lee, J.J. Maurer, M.P. Doyle. Animal Sources of Human Salmonellosis. Journal of American Veterinary Medical Association 221:492-497, 2002.

Lee, M. D., S. Sanchez, M. Zimmer, U. Idris, M. E. Berrang, and P. F. McDermott. Class 1 Integron-Associated Tobramycin/Gentamicin Resistance in Campylobacter jejuni Isolated from the Broiler Chicken House Environment. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 46:3660-3664, 2002.

Goldstein, C., M.D. Lee, S. Sanchez, C. Hudson, B. Phillips, B. Register, M. Grady, C. Liebert, A.O. Summers, D.G. White, J.J. Maurer. Incidence of Class 1 and 2 Integrases in Clinical and Commensal Bacteria from Livestock, Companion Animals, and Exotics. J. Clin. Microbiol. 45:723-726, 2001.

Nesbit, E. G., P. Gibbs, D. W. Dreesen, M. D. Lee. The epidemiology of Campylobacter jejuni cultured from poultry broiler houses investigated by molecular strain typing. American Journal of Veterinary Research 62:902-906, 2001.

Lee, M. D., F. T. Burch, J. J. Maurer, A. Henk, and S. G. Thayer. DNA fingerprinting of serotype A:3,4 fowl cholera isolates of Pasteurella multocida. Avian Dis. 44:201-204, 2000.

Keyes K., C., Hudson, J.J. Maurer, S.G. Thayer, D. White, M.D. Lee. Detection of florfenicol resistance Genes in Escherichia coli isolated from sick chickens. Antimicrobial Agents Chemother. 44:421-424, 2000.

Hudson, C. R., C. Quist, M.D. Lee, K. Keyes, S. V. Dodson, C. Morales, and J. J. Maurer. The genetic-relatedness of Salmonella from Non-domestic birds in the Southeastern United States. J. Clinical Microbiol. 38:1860-1865, 2000.

Kapczynski, D. R., R. J. Meinersmann, M.D. Lee. Adherence of Lactobacillus to Intestinal 407 cells in culture correlates with fibronectin binding. Current Microbiology 41:136-141, 2000.

Mizan, S., A. Henk, A. Stallings, M. Maier, M.D. Lee. Cloning and Characterization of Sialidases with 2-6’ and 2-3’ sialyl lactose Specificity from Pasteurella multocida. J. Bacteriol. 186:6871-6883, 2000.

Lee, M.D. and J.J. Maurer. The genetic basis of antimicrobial resistance among veterinary pathogens. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 916:643-645, 2000.

White, D. G., C. Hudson, J. J. Maurer, S. Zhao, S. Ayers, M.D. Lee , L. Bolton, T. Foley, and J. Sherwood. Characterization of chloramphenicol and florfenicol resistance in Escherichia coli associated with bovine diarrhea. J. Clin. Microbiol. 38:4593-4598, 2000.

 

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