Walter Cook

Areas of Expertise

• Wildlife disease prevention and management

Professional Summary

Dr. Cook is an adjunct professor in the Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management and is primarily housed in the College of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Cook is primarily interested in wildlife disease prevention and management. He has done research and management on diseases such as anthrax, brucellosis, and chronic wasting disease. He has also worked with chemical immobilization agents and is interested in pharmacokinetics and drug withdrawal of antibiotics and immobilizing agents.

Selected Publications

Ruff, SP, DE Peck, CT Bastian and WE Cook (2016). Economics of transitioning from a cow-calf-yearling operation to a stocker operation. ANNUAL JOURNAL OF AM SOC FARM MGERS RUR APP ., 55-76

Speiser, KL, BA Schumaker, WE Cook, TE Cornish, KM Cammack and MM Miller (2016). Comparison of the humoral response between sheep vaccinated with a killed-virus vaccine and those vaccinated with a modified-live virus vaccine against bluetongue virus serotype 17. JAVMA. 9, 1043-1049

Adetunji, SA, RC Krecek, G Castellanos, JC Morrill, A Blue-McLendon, WE Cook, MD Esteve-Gassent (2016). Seroprevalence of Borrellia burgdorferi antibodies in white-tailed deer from Texas INT J PARASITOL PARASITES WILDL. . 2, 168-174

Edmunds, DR, MJ Kaufman, BA Schumaker, FG Lindzey, WE Cook, TJ Kreeger, RG Grogan, and TE Cornish (2016). Chronic Wasting Disease drives population decline of white-tailed deer PLOS ONE . 8,

Cook, W, D Cain, T Hensley, W Bluntzer, W Lance, L Dobson, R McDaniel M Lockwood, B Dittmar, R Schoenberg, M Smith and D Davis (2016). Tissue residue levels of florfenicol, ceftiofur, tulthromycin, oxytetracycline, cydectin in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) at 11, 21, and 31 days post intramuscular injection SMALL RUM RES., 234-235

Cook, W, D Cain, T Hensley, W Bluntzer, W Lance, L Dobson, R McDaniel and D Davis (2016). Tissue residue levels of butorphanol, azaperone, medetomidine, atipamizole and naltrexone in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) at 11 and 21 days post intramuscular injection. POULT FISH WILDL SCI .