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Barton W. Rohrbach, VMD, MPH


Associate Professor
Department of Comparative Medicine
College of Veterinary Medicine
The University of Tennessee
2407 River Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
Phone
FAX: (865) 974-5773
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Education

  • V.M.D. University of Pennsylvania
  • MPH Johns Hopkins University

Board Certification

  • American College of Veterinary Preventative Medicine, 1986
  • Speciality Epidemiology, 1987

Teaching

  • Clinical Epidemiology
  • Zoonoses
  • Population Medicine

Clinical Interests

  • Disease outbreak investigations

Research Interests

  • Clinical study design & analysis
  • Modeling economic decisions

Publications

  • Rohrbach BW, Legendre AM, Baldwin CA, Lein DH, Reed WM, Wilson RB. Epidemiology of feline infectious peritonitis among cats examined at veterinary medical teaching hospitals. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 2001.
  • Rohrbach BW, Cannedy AL, Freeman K, Slenning BD. Risk factors for abomasal displacement in dairy cows. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 1999.
  • Rohrbach BW, Green EM, Oliver JW, Schneider JF. Exposure to endophyte-infected (Acremonium coenophialum) tall fescue as a risk factor for laminitis in the horse: an aggregate risk study. Am J Vet Res. 1995;56:22-26.
  • Rohrbach BW, Breider MA, Gerhardt RR, Henton JE. Surveillance for Equine monocytic ehrlichiosis in Tennessee from 1986 to 1988. Veterinary Medicine 1993;88:452-457.
  • Rohrbach BW, Breider MA, Gerhardt RR, Henton JE. The characteristics, treatment, and control of Equine monocyticehrlichiosis. Veterinary Medicine 1993;88:448-451.
  • Rohrbach BW, Hall RF, Hitchcock JP. Effect of subclinical infection with Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae in commingled feeder swine. J Am Vet Med Assoc 1993;202:1095-1098.
  • Rohrbach BW, Oliver SP, Draughon FA, Davidson PM. Mycoplasmal mastitis: A survey of bulk tank milk, East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. Agri-Practice 1993;14:30-34.
  • Rohrbach BW, Draughon FA, Davidson PM, Oliver SP. Prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes, Campylobacter jejuni, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella in bulk tank milk: risk factors and risk of human exposure. Journal of Food Protection 1992;55:93-97.
  • Rohrbach BW. Epidemiology and clinical characteristics of tularemia in Oklahoman, 1979 to 1985. Southern Medical Journal 1991;84:1091-1096
  • Rohrbach BW, Harkess JR, Ewing SA, Kudlac J, McKee GL, Istre GR. Epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of persons with serologic evidence of Ehrlichia canis infection. American Journal of Public Health 1990;80:442-445.
  • Rohrbach BW. Zoonosis Update: Tularemia. J AmVet Med Assoc 1988;193:428-432.