Bhushan Mrutun Jayarao

Appointed to the Department of Veterinary Science: 1998

Education:

• MPH Public Health, University of Tennessee, 1994
• PhD Food Microbiology & Epidemiology, University of Veterinary Sciences, Budapest, 1989
• MVSc Veterinary Public Health, Bombay Veterinary College, 1982
• BVSc Veterinary Medicine, Bombay Veterinary College, 1980

Career History:

• Assistant Professor of Veterinary Science, Department of Veterinary Science, PSU, 1998-present
• Assistant Professor of Dairy Science, Department of Dairy Science, South Dakota State University, Brookings,1995-98
• Research Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Science, The University of Tennessee,   Knoxville, 1991-95
• Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Animal Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1989-91
• PhD Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 1986-89
• Assistant Professor of Public Health, Bombay University, College of Veterinary Medicine, India,1982-86
• Veterinarian, small and large animal practice, 1982-86.

Experience:

Fourteen years, pre- and post-harvest food safety. Specific areas include milk quality, bovine mastitis, food microbiology, molecular epidemiology, application of PCR-based DNA probes in diagnostic microbiology, genetic analysis of bovine immune regulatory gene.

Publications:

Gillespie BE, BM Jayarao, SP Oliver. Identification of Streptococcus species by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprinting. J Dairy Sci 80:471-476, 1997.

Jayarao BM, BE Gillespie, SP Oliver. Application of randomly amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprinting for species identification of bacteria isolated from bovine mammary secretions. J Food Prot 59:615-620, 1996.

Keane KA, BM Jayarao, BE Gillespie, SP Oliver. Subtyping of Enterococcus faecium isolated from an outbreak of mastitis using PCR-based DNA fingerprinting technique. Prev Vet Med 23:87-94, 1995.

Jayarao BM, SP Oliver. Polymerase chain reaction-based DNA fingerprinting for identification of Streptococcus and Enterococcus species isolated from bovine milk. J Food Prot 57:240-245, 1994.

Matthews KR, SP Oliver, BM Jayarao, AJ Guidry, EF Erbe, WP Wergin. Encapsulation of Streptococcus uberis: Influence of storage and cultural conditions. Vet Microbiol 39:361-367, 1994.

Jayarao BM, EE Schilling, SP Oliver. Genomic DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism of Streptococcus uberis: Evidence of clonal diversity. J Dairy Sci 76:468-474, 1993.

Matthews KR, BM Jayarao, SP Oliver. Plasmid pattern analysis of Staphylococcus species isolated from bovine mammary secretions. J Dairy Sci 75:3318-3323, 1992.

Matthews KR, BM Jayarao, SP Oliver. Restriction endonuclease fingerprinting of genomic DNA of Staphylococcus species of bovine origin. Epidemiology and Infection 109:59-68, 1992.

Paturkar AM, AA Sherikar, BM Jayarao. Prevalence of Salmonella in meat and sea foods of Bombay City. J Fd Sci Technol 29:243-245, 1992.

Jayarao BM, JJE Dore, Jr, SP Oliver. Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of 16S ribosomal DNA of Streptococcus and Enterococcus species of bovine origin. J Clin Microbiol 30:2235-2240, 1992.

Jayarao BM, BJ Bassam, G Caetano-Anolles, PM Gresshoff, SP Oliver. Subtyping of Streptococcus uberis by DNA amplification fingerprinting. J Clin Microbiol 30:1347-1350, 1992.

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