Kerry Cooper

My research interest in development of prevention and treatment options for foodborne pathogens involves looking for alternative treatment and prevention methods from traditional antibiotics due to resistance for those pathogens that are traditionally treated with antibiotics like Salmonella and Campylobacter. While looking for alternative treatment options for foodborne pathogens like Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) that cannot be treated with antibiotics. Ultimately our goal is to find a therapeutic/preventative agent(s) that would effectively work as a treatment against the different foodborne pathogens, while also improving preventative methods in agriculture over the traditional method of placing large amounts of antimicrobials in animal feed.