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John B. Malone
Professor, Veterinary Parasitology
Laboratory:
Phone: 225-578-9692
Fax: 225-578-9701
malone@vetmed.lsu.edu |
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Education:
B.S. University of California • D.V.M. University of California • Ph.D. University of Georgia
As supervisor of the Clinical Parasitology Service of the Louisiana Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, Dr. Malone provides diagnostic support to private veterinarians and the agricultural sector and is active in clinical research on unusual cases of parasitic disease in both companion animals and livestock. Dr. Malone teaches in the second year professional courses and coordinates the diagnostic parasitology course to Year 4 veterinary students. He offers the “Population Dynamics and Ecology of Parasitic and Vector-Borne Diseases” graduate course and contributes in other courses as a full-member of the graduate faculty. Dr. Malone is past-president of the American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists and from 1993 to 2003 served as USA representative on the executive committee of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology. He was the 1986 recipient of the School of Veterinary Medicine Distinguished Scholar Award and the 2000 recipient of the Pfizer Award for Excellence in Research.
Research Interests
Use of earth observing satellite imagery and geographic information systems (GIS network on snail borne infections) to evaluate the suitability of the environment for disease agents is the major emphasis of Dr. Malone's research program. Successful use of climate forecasts and geographic methods in early work in Louisiana on control of Fasciola, a snail-borne liver parasite of cattle, has developed into international health research involvements in Egypt, Brazil and Ethiopia on vector-borne diseases, including human schistosomiasis, a major disease in rural agricultural communities in developing countries. Support has been provided by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture, the USDA, NIH, and USAID. Dr. Malone was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Egypt in 1991 and a Visiting Scientist at the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization in 1996.
Selected Publications
Malone, J.B., J.M. Yilma, J.C. McCarroll, B. Erko, S. Mukaratirwa, and X. Zhou. 2001. Satellite climatology and the environmental risk of Schistosoma mansoni in Ethiopia and east Africa. Acta Trop 79:59-72.
Abdel-Rahman, S.M., K.L. O'Reilly and J.B. Malone. 1998. Evaluation of a diagnostic monoclonal antibody-based capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the detection of a 26-28kD Fasciola hepatica coproantigen in cattle. American Journal of Veterinary Research. 59:533-537.
Malone, J.B. and J.M. Yilma. 1998. Predicting outbreaks of fasciolosis: From Ollerenshaw to Satellites. IN: Fasciolosis. Ed. JP Dalton CAB International Publications, Cambridge: pp. 151-183 (Ch 5).
Bavia, M.E., L.F. Hale, J.B. Malone, D.H. Braud and S.M. Shane. 1998. Geographic information systems and the environmental risk of schistosomiasis in Bahia, Brazil. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 60:566-572.
Malone, J.B., M.S. Abdel Rahman, M.M. El Bahy, O.K.Huh, M. Shafik and M. Bavia. 1997. Geographic information systems and the distribution of Schistosoma mansoni in the Nile delta. Parasitology Today 13:112-119.
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