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David Kelton
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Latest papers
Within-herd mathematical modeling of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis to assess the effectiveness of alternative intervention methods.
Preventive veterinary medicine · 2025
Associations between measures of network centrality and Johne's disease among dairy herds in Ontario, Canada.
Journal of dairy science · 2025
Progress in Paratuberculosis Control Programmes for Dairy Herds.
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024
Latest funding
- $2,458,308
Sustainable health management for dairy cattle in Canada
NSERC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $30,000
Novel approaches to prevent bovine mastitis by microbiome manipulation - Nouvelles approches en matière de prévention de la mammite bovine par la manipulation du microbiome _x000d_ _x000d_ _x000d_
NSERC · 2020 · Co-investigator
- $959,000
Antimicrobial Stewardship Solutions for a Sustainable Ontario Dairy Industry
ONTARIO · 2020 · Principal investigator
28 publications.
Within-herd mathematical modeling of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis to assess the effectiveness of alternative intervention methods.
Comper JR, Hand KJ, Poljak Z, Kelton D, Greer AL
Associations between measures of network centrality and Johne's disease among dairy herds in Ontario, Canada.
Comper JR, Hand KJ, Poljak Z, Kelton D, Greer AL
Progress in Paratuberculosis Control Programmes for Dairy Herds.
Weber MF, Kelton D, Eisenberg SWF, Donat K
Comparison of Machine Learning Tree-Based Algorithms to Predict Future Paratuberculosis ELISA Results Using Repeat Milk Tests.
Imada J, Arango-Sabogal JC, Bauman C, Roche S, Kelton D
Development of interactive dashboards for monitoring endemic animal pathogens in Ontario, Canada: Ontario interactive animal pathogen dashboards.
Petukhova T, Spinato M, Rossi T, Guerin MT, Kelton D, Nelson-Smikle P, Barham M, Ojkic D, Poljak Z
A focus group study exploring dairy farmers' perspectives of cull cow management in Ontario, Canada.
Marshall J, Haley DB, Kelton D, Miltenburg C, Roche S, Duffield T
Descriptive network analysis and the influence of timescale on centrality and cohesion metrics from a system of between-herd dairy cow movements in Ontario, Canada.
Comper JR, Kelton D, Hand KJ, Poljak Z, Greer AL
Comparison of food-animal veterinarians' and producers' perceptions of producer-centered communication following on-farm interactions.
DeGroot A, Coe JB, Kelton D, Miltenburg C, Wichtel J, Duffield T
Factors associated with food-animal producer visit-specific satisfaction following on-farm interaction with a veterinarian.
DeGroot A, Coe J, Kelton D, Miltenburg C, Wichtel J, Duffield T
Detection of Mycobacterium avium Subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) Microorganisms Using Antigenic MAP Cell Envelope Proteins.
Karuppusamy S, Mutharia L, Kelton D, Plattner B, Mallikarjunappa S, Karrow N, Kirby G
Sustainable health management for dairy cattle in Canada
Principal investigators: LeBlanc, Stephen SJ
Keywords: animal science; antimicbrobial stewardship; best management practices; biosecurity; dairy cattle; health; infectious disease; reproduction; sustainability; veterinary medicine
Novel approaches to prevent bovine mastitis by microbiome manipulation - Nouvelles approches en matière de prévention de la mammite bovine par la manipulation du microbiome _x000d_ _x000d_ _x000d_
Principal investigators: Ronholm, Jennifer
Antimicrobial Stewardship Solutions for a Sustainable Ontario Dairy Industry
Principal investigators: Kelton, David
Keywords: Antimicrobial use, sustainability, dairy, epidemiology, stewardship
NSERC CREATE in Milk Quality
Principal investigators: Jacques, Mario
Genetic and genomic approaches to improve dairy health, food quality and farm profitability through enhanced immune response
Principal investigators: Mallard, Bonnie
Feasibility of transferring high immune response technology to improve the health and food quality of dairy cattle
Principal investigators: Mallard, Bonnie
Development of national genetic evaluation for disease resistance
Principal investigators: Schenkel, Flavio
Evaluation of lameness indicators for their potential use in genetic evaluation of lameness
Principal investigators: Kelton, David
Applying recombinant technologies to define the secretome of M.a. paratuberculosis for the discovery of potential immunogens and diagnostic reagents
Principal investigators: Mutharia, Lucy
Evaluation of a risk assessment based Johne's disease control program
Principal investigators: Kelton, David
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Zvonimir Poljak and Olaf Berke: 7 shared papers
- Zvonimir Poljak and David Kelton: 6 shared papers
- Olaf Berke and Wayne Martin: 4 shared papers
- Todd Duffield and David Kelton: 3 shared papers
- Olaf Berke and Paula Menzies: 3 shared papers
- Zvonimir Poljak and Javier Sanchez: 2 shared papers
- Niel Karrow and David Kelton: 2 shared papers
- Jeff Caswell and David Kelton: 2 shared papers
- Todd Duffield and Jeffrey Wichtel: 2 shared papers
- David Kelton and Cathy Bauman: 2 shared papers
- David Kelton and Paula Menzies: 2 shared papers
- David Kelton and Jeffrey Wichtel: 2 shared papers
- Paula Menzies and Jeffrey Wichtel: 2 shared papers
- Jason Coe and Jeffrey Wichtel: 2 shared papers
- Herman Barkema and David Kelton: 1 shared paper
- Herman Barkema and Cathy Bauman: 1 shared paper
- Zvonimir Poljak and Jason Coe: 1 shared paper
- Trevor DeVries and David Kelton: 1 shared paper
- Trevor DeVries and Kerry Lissemore: 1 shared paper
- Javier Sanchez and David Kelton: 1 shared paper
- Todd Duffield and Paula Menzies: 1 shared paper
- Todd Duffield and Jason Coe: 1 shared paper
- Todd Duffield and Kerry Lissemore: 1 shared paper
- David Kelton and Olaf Berke: 1 shared paper
- David Kelton and Jason Coe: 1 shared paper
- David Kelton and Kerry Lissemore: 1 shared paper
- David Kelton and Wayne Martin: 1 shared paper
- Department of Population Medicine
- Bioinformatics
- Department of Pathobiology
- Department of Animal Biosciences
- Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of
- Health Management
- Head Office
Co-authors at University of Guelph, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Zvonimir Poljak
Bioinformatics
6 shared papers, latest 2025
Todd Duffield
Department of Population Medicine
3 shared papers, latest 2023
Jeffrey Wichtel
Department of Population Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2021
Paula Menzies
Department of Population Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Cathy Bauman
Department of Population Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2024
Jeff Caswell
Department of Pathobiology
2 shared papers, latest 2020
Niel Karrow
Department of Animal Biosciences
2 shared papers, latest 2021
Kerry Lissemore
Department of Population Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Olaf Berke
Department of Population Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2006
Jason Coe
Department of Population Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Wayne Martin
Department of Population Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2006
Trevor DeVries
Head Office
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Herman Barkema
Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Javier Sanchez
Health Management
1 shared papers, latest 2015
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