Department of Population Health, Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center
Professor
Biography

Educational Background

  • DVM (1996), University of the West Indies
  • MAM (2001), The University of Georgia
  • PhD (2003), Medical Microbiology, The University of Georgia

Selected Publications

  • Armour, NK., Laibinis VA., Collett SR., and N. Ferguson-Noel. The Development and Application of a Mycoplasma gallisepticum Sequence Database. Avian Path, 2013; DOI:10.1080/03079457.2013.819486
  • Lysnyansky, I., I. Gerchman, S. Levisohn, I. Mikula, A. Feberwee, N.M. Ferguson, A.H. Noormohammadi, J. Spergser, and H.M. Windsor. 2012. Discrepancy between minimal inhibitory concentration to enrofloxacin and mutations present in the quinolone-resistance determining regions of Mycoplasma gallisepticum field strains. Vet Microbiol 160:222-226.
  • Ferguson-Noel, N., V. Laibinis, and S.H. Kleven. 2012. Evaluation of Mycoplasma gallisepticum K-Strain as a Live Vaccine in Chickens. Avian Dis 56:44-50.
  • Delaney NF, Balenger S, Bonneaud C, Marx CJ, Hill GE, Ferguson-Noel N, Tsai P, Rodrigo A, Edwards SV. Ultrafast evolution and loss of CRISPRs following a host shift in a novel wildlife pathogen, Mycoplasma gallisepticum. PLoS Genet. 8(2):e1002511. 2012. Epub 2012 Feb 9.
  • Hennigan, S.L., J.D. Driskell, N. Ferguson-Noel, R.A. Dluhy, Y. Zhao, R.A. Tripp, and D.C. Krause. Detection and Differentiation of Avian Mycoplasmas by Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Based on Silver Nanorod Array. Appl Environ Microbiol. 78(6):1930-1935. 2012.
  • Ferguson-Noel NM, Laibinis VA, Kleven SH. Evaluation of Mycoplasma gallisepticum K-strain as a live vaccine in chickens. Avian Dis. 56(1):44-50. 2012.
  • Ferguson-Noel, N., K. Cookson, V. Laibinis, and S.H. Kleven. 2012. The Efficacy of Three Commercial Mycoplasma gallisepticum Vaccines in Laying Hens. Avian Dis 56:272-275.
  • El Gazzar M, Laibinis VA, Ferguson-Noel N. Characterization of a ts-1-like Mycoplasma galisepticum isolate from commercial broiler chickens. Avian Dis. 55(4):569-74. 2011.
  • Gharaibeh S, Laibinis V, Wooten R, Stabler L, Ferguson-Noel N. Molecular characterization of Mycoplasma gallisepticum isolates from Jordan. Avian Dis. 55(2):212-6. 2011.

Book Chapters

  • Ferguson-Noel N. (2013). Introduction: Mycoplasmosis. In: Diseases of Poultry, 13 ed. D.E. Swayne, J.R. Glisson, L.R. McDougald, L.K. Nolan, D.L. Suarez and V. Nair, eds. Wiley-Blackwell, Ames, Iowa. pp 875-876. 2013.
  • Ferguson-Noel N., and Noormohammadi, A. (2013). Mycoplasma synoviae infection In: Diseases of Poultry, 13 ed. D.E. Swayne, J.R. Glisson, L.R. McDougald, L.K. Nolan, D.L. Suarez and V. Nair, eds. Wiley-Blackwell, Ames, Iowa. pp 900-906. 2013.
  • Ferguson-Noel N. (2013). Other Mycoplasmal infections. In: Diseases of Poultry, 13 ed. D.E. Swayne, J.R. Glisson, L.R. McDougald, L.K. Nolan, D.L. Suarez and V. Nair, eds. Wiley-Blackwell, Ames, Iowa. pp 910-912. 2013.

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