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Kathy L. O'Reilly
Associate Professor, Immunology
Laboratory:
Phone: 225-578-9679
Fax: 225-578-9701
oreilly@vetmed.lsu.edu |
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Education:
B.S. University of Wyoming • M.S University of Wyoming • Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Post-doctoral Fellow, 1990-1992, Colorado State University
Dr. O'Reilly teaches courses on immunology in the veterinary curriculum and the graduate program in veterinary medical sciences. She coordinates a well-attended graduate course, Cellular and Molecular Immunology. In addition, she contributes to the other immunology and virology courses taught at the School of Veterinary Medicine. She is active on committees of numerous M.S. and Ph.D. candidates. Dr. O'Reilly serves on many LSU committees including Faculty Senate, LSU Radiation Safety Committee and IACUC). Dr. O'Reilly served on the Board of Scientific Reviewers for the Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology. She is an active member of numerous scientific societies including the American Association of Immunologists, the American Association of Veterinary Immunologists, American Society for Virology, and the American Society for Microbiology. She is the Secretary-Treasurer for the South Central Branch of the American Society for Microbiology.
Research Interests
Her research activities are related to the host response to viral and bacterial pathogens of animals, particularly cats and cattle. Her recent research has focused on the pathogenesis of Bartonella henselae, the causative agent of cat-scratch disease, and the recently reported bovine respiratory cornonavirus. This research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund as well as corporations and private foundations and are conducted at the School of Veterinary Medicine.
Selected Publications
Foil, L.D., Andress, E, Freeland, R. L., Roy, A.F., Rutledge, R., Triche, P.C.,and O'Reilly, K.L. 1998. Experimental infection of domestic cats with Bartonella henselae by inoculation of cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) feces. J. Med. Entomo. 35:625-628.
Freeland, R.L., Rohde, K.R., Shelton, L.J. and O'Reilly,K.L. 1999. Identification of Bartonella-specific immunodominant antigens recognized by the feline humoral immune system. Clin. Diag. Lab. Immunol. 6: 558-566.
O'Reilly, K.L. Bauer, R., Freeland, R.L., Foil, L.D., Hughes, K.J., Rohde, K.R., Roy. A.F., Stout, R.W., Triche, P.C. 1999. Acute clinical disease in cats following infection with a pathogenic strain of Bartonella henselae (LSU16). Infect.Immun. 67: 3066-3072.
O'Reilly, K.L., Parr, K., Brown, T., Tedder-Ferguson, B.and Scholl, D.T. 2001. Passive antibody to Bartonella henselae protects against clinical disease following homologous challenge but does not prevent bacteremia in cats Infect. Immun. 69:1880-1882.
Finkelstein, J.L., Wedincamp, Jr., J., O'Reilly, K.L. and Foil, L.D. 2002. Studies on the growth of Bartonella henselae in the cat flea Ctencepalides felis (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae). J. Med. Entomol. 39:915-919.
Chenoweth, M.R., Somerville, G.A., Krause, D.C., O'Reilly, K.L., Gherardini, F.C. 2003. Growth characteristics of Bartonella henselae in a novel liquid medium: m Primary isoation, growth-phase dependent phage induction, and metabolic studies. (Submitted to Applied and Environmental Microbiology)
Lin, X.Q., O'Reilly, K.L. and Storz, J. 1997. Infectivity of enteric and respiratory bovine coronaviruses for polar domains of cultured epithelial cells. Am.J. Vet. Res. 58:1120-1124.
Lin, X.-Q., O'Reilly, K.L., Storz, J., Purdy, C.W. and Loan, R.W. 2000. Antibody responses of cattle to respiratory bovine coronavirus infections in a severe shipping fever epizootic. Arch. Virol., 145:1-15
Lin, X., K.L. O'Reilly and J. Storz. 2001. Infectivity neutralizing and hemagglutinin inhibiting antibodies in respiratory coronavirus infections of cattle during the pathogenesis of shipping fever pneumonia. Clin.Diag. Lab. Immunol. 8:357-362.
Lin., X-Q., O'Reilly, K.L. and Storz, J. 2002. Antibody responses of cattle with respiratory coronavirus infections during shipping fever pathogenesis are sifnificantly lowered with antigens of enteric stains. Clin. Diag. Lab.Immunol, 9: 1010-1013.
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