Critical Needs for Research in Veterinary Science (2005)
Chapter: Appendix K Research Facilities of the USDA Agricultural Research Service and Its Partners
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Location |
Research Units |
Relevant Research Project Areas |
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Auburn, AL |
Aquatic Animal Health Research Laboratory |
Health research for channel catfish, tilapia, and hybrid striped bass |
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Fayetteville, AR |
Poultry Production and Product Safety Research Unit |
Ascites, metabolic bone diseases, intestinal resistance to disease, antibiotic alternatives, and food safety in poultry |
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Stuttgart, ARa |
Harry K. Dupree National Aquaculture Research Center |
Health research for baitfish, catfish, and striped bass |
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Gainesville, FLa |
Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology |
Control methods for blood-sucking arthropods |
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Athens, GAa |
Richard B Russell Research Center |
Poultry meat and egg pre-harvest food safety, manure pathogen management, and antibiotic resistance |
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Athens, GA |
Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory |
Exotic and emerging viral diseases of poultry—avian influenza, Newcastle disease, avian metapneumovirus, enteric disease viruses, and Marek’s disease |
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Ames, IA |
National Animal Disease Center |
Bacterial, viral, and prion diseases and food safety of livestock; food safety and bacterial diseases of turkeys |
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*West Lafayette, INa |
ARS Research Facility |
Well-being of livestock and poultry |
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Beltsville, MDa |
Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center |
Parasites of livestock and poultry—control, immunology, and fhnctional genomics |
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East Lansing, MI |
Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory |
Marek’s and retroviral diseases of poultry |
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Mississippi State, MSa |
ARS Research Facility |
Mycoplasmosis of poultry |
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Clay Center, NEa |
Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center |
Food safety and respiratory viral pathogens of livestock |
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Orient Point, NY |
Plum Island Animal Disease Center |
Foot-and-mouth disease, vesicular stomatitis, and classical swine fever |
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College Station, TXa |
Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center |
Pre-harvest food safety of livestock and poultry |
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Kerrville, TX |
Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insect Laboratory |
Control of ticks and blood-feeding flies on livestock |
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Logan, UTa |
Utah ARS Location |
Effects of poison plants on livestock |
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Pullman, WAa |
ARS Research Location |
Protozoal and prion diseases of livestock and horses, malignant catarrhal fever, and lentiviruses |
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Number of Scientists |
Number of Projects |
Laboratory Area (ft2) |
Type of Facility |
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11 |
4 |
12,355 |
ARS |
|
6 |
5 |
2,734 |
University |
|
7 |
1 |
27,213 |
ARS |
|
39.9 |
17 |
10,080 |
ARS |
|
40.7 |
16 |
302,306 |
ARS |
|
15 |
7 |
25,783 |
ARS |
|
48 |
20 |
260,730 |
ARS |
|
20 |
8 |
38,815 |
University |
|
290 |
147 |
1,323.506 |
ARS |
|
9 |
5 |
16,212 |
ARS |
|
27.2 |
12 |
56,126 |
ARS |
|
53 |
26 |
150,782 |
ARS |
|
8.1 |
5 |
226,560 |
DHS |
|
35.5 |
15 |
103,105 |
ARS |
|
10 |
4 |
25,940 |
ARS |
|
18.9 |
3 |
27,824 |
ARS |
|
31.1 |
4 |
7,415 |
University |
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Location |
Research Units |
Relevant Research Project Areas |
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Leeto, WVa |
National Center for Cool and Coldwater Aquaculture |
Health research for salmon, rainbow trout, and chard |
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Laramie, WY |
Arthropod-Borne Animal Disease Research Laboratory |
Bluetongue, West Nile fever, and other arthropod-bome |
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diseases of domestic livestock |
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aAnimal health and protection account for only a portion of research projects at this location. The number of scientists, Current Research Information System projects, and facility space used for animal health and protection are less than the totals shown. SOURCE: USDA 1999, http://www.ars.usda.gov. |
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