Kevin Washburn
Professor
Food Animal Field Services, Medicine & Surgery
Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences
Research and Scholarly Interests
Food Animal Medicine & Surgery. Developing and investigating the disposition of extra-label antimicrobials in small ruminants; pharmacokinetics of respiratory antimicrobials; comparison of different treatment modalities for small ruminant caseous lymphadenitis; the value of the HI test for diagnosis of small ruminants with caseous lymphadenitis; diagnosis of transmission of CAEV via colostrum; and antemortem diagnosis of malignant lymphoma in cattle. Investigating infection of swine with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis in attempts to create an animal model for human inflammatory bowel disease.
EDUCATION
- B.S., Oklahoma State University, 1990
- D.V.M., Oklahoma State University, 1993
CREDENTIALS
- American Board of Veterinary Practitioners, Food Animal Practice, start 1999, Board Certified
- American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Large Animal, start 2002, Board Certified
- Washburn KE, Bissett WT, Waldron DF, Fajt VR (2013). Serologic and bacteriologic culture prevalence of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis infection in goats and sheep and use of Bayesian analysis to determine value of assay results for prediction of future infection. J AM VET MED ASSOC. 7, 997-1002
- Janke JJ, Osterstock JB, Washburn KE, Bissett WT, Roussel AJ, Hooper RN (2009). Use of Walpole's solution for treatment of goats with urolithiasis: 25 cases (2001-2006). J AM VET MED ASSOC. 2, 249-52
- Washburn KE, Bissett W, Fajt V, Clubb F, Fosgate GT, Libal M, Smyre KE, Cass KL (2007). The safety of tulathromycin administration in goats. J VET PHARMACOL THER. 3, 267-70
- Washburn KS, Donnelly KC, Huebner HJ, Burghardt RC, Sewall TC, Claxton LD (2001). A study of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene inhibition of benzo[a]pyrene uptake and activation in a microbial mutagenicity assay.CHEMOSPHERE. 8, 1703-9
- Safe S, Washburn K, Zacharewski T, Phillips T (1995). Synthesis and characterization of hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) identified in human serum. CHEMOSPHERE. 4, 3017-23
- Washburn KE, Fajt VR, Plummer P, Coetzee JF, Wulf L, Washburn SE (2014). Pharmacokinetics of oral chlortetracycline in non-pregnant adult ewes JOURNAL OF VETERINARY PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS.
- Washburn KE, Fajt VR, Lawhon SD, Adams LG, Tell LA, Bissett W (2013). Tulathromycin concentrations in interstitial fluid from tissue chambers inoculated with Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis following subcutaneous or intra-chamber administration: a caprine abscess model. AntimicrobAGENTS CHEMOTHER.
- Washburn KE, Fajt V, Coetzee JF, Rice S, Wulf LW (2015). Phamacokinetics of Tulathromycin in Adult Ewes JOURNAL OF VETERINARY PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS.
- Jones ML, Washburn KE, Fajt VR, Rice S, Coetzee JF (2015). Synovial fluid pharmacokinetics of tulathromycin, gamithromycin and florfenicol after a single subcutaneous dose in cattle.
- Washburn KE, Fajt V, Coetzee JF, Rice S, Wulf LW, Washburn SE, (2015). Pharmacokinetics of tulathromycin in adult ewes.
- Washburn, KE (2017). Locatlization of neurologic lesions in ruminants VETERINARY CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA: FOOD ANIMAL PRACTICE .
- Washburn KE, Fajt V, Plummer P, et. al., (2017). Pharmacokinetics of chlortetracycline in maternal plasma and in fetal tissues following oral administration to the ewe. JOURNAL OF VETERINARY PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS ., 1-6
- Washburn KE, Fajt V, Plummer P, Coetzee J, Washburn SE (2016). Plasma and Fetal Tissue Concentrations of Chlortetracycline Following Oral Administration to Sheep for Eight Days JOURNAL OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE.
- Lepitz, Washburn SE, Washburn KE, (2017). Fetal and maternal effects of dexmedetomidine. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY RESEARCH.