Anne Zajac (azajac@scsrpc.org)                                                                      

Position

Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
 

Institution

Virgina/Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg VA 24061
 

Education

BS (Zoology)- 1973, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
MS  (Parasitology)- 1979, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
DVM- 1982, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
PhD (Parasitology)- 1986, Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH
 

Research Interests

Dr. Zajac’s principal research area is gastrointestinal nematodes of ruminants, especially sheep and goats.  She is interested in the development of practical control programs using both anthelmintics and alternative methods of control and has also worked with parasite resistant hair sheep breeds.  Dr. Zajac is the director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the VA/MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine.
 

Selected Recent Publications

Sloss M, Kemp R, Zajac A.  1994. Veterinary Clinical Parasitology.  Ames, Iowa, Iowa State University Press.

Zajac AM.  Genetic Resistance to Infectious Disease in Small Ruminants:  North America and the Caribbean.  In Breeding for Resistance to Infectious Diseases in Small Ruminants.  Gray G.D., Woolaston R. R. , Eaton B.T.  ACIAR, Canberra, Australia.  1995.  pp 153-166.

Herd RP, Zajac AM.  Nematode infections in cattle, sheep, goats and swine.  Current Veterinary Therapy.  Food Animal Practice.  Howard JL, Smith RA (eds).  W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia.  1999.  pp545-556.

Zajac AM.  Parasitic bronchitis and pneumonia.  In Large Animal Internal Medicine, 3rd edition. Smith BP (ed).  Mosby, Baltimore.  2002.  pp 577-580.

Zajac AM., Gipson TA.  2000.  Multiple anthelmintic resistance in a goat herd.  Vet Parasitol.  87:163-72.

Zajac AM., Sangster NC., Geary TG.  2000.  Why veterinarians should care more about parasitology.  Parasitol Today.  16:504-505.

Zajac A., Johnson, J., King, S.  2002. Evaluation of the importance of centrifugation as a component of zinc sulfate fecal flotation examinations.  JAAHA. 38:221-224.

Vanimisetti, H. B., S. P. Greiner, A. M. Zajac, and D. R. Notter.  2002.

Between-breed variation in response to Haemonchus contortus infection in sheep. J. Anim. Sci. 80(Suppl. 1).

Notter DR, Andrew SA, Zajac AM. 2003.  Responses of hair sheep, wool sheep and hair X wool crossbreds to a single fixed dose of infective larvae of Haemonchus contortusJournal of Small Ruminant Research.  47:221-225.

Vannimisetti HB, Greiner SP, Zajac AM, Notter DR.  2004.  Performance of hair sheep composite breeds:  Resistance of lambs to Haemonchus contortus.  J Anim Sci.  82:595-604.