JIM COLLINS 

Professor
Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 1977

Department of Veterinary Science and Microbiology
University of Arizona 
Tucson, AZ 85721

Phone (520) 626-7321 
Fax (520) 621-6366
E-Mail jimc@u.arizona.edu

Research interests

Herpesvirus infections of cattle and bison; ecology and biology of disease-causing viruses of livestock; surveillance and diagnosis of virus disease.

MIC 205A General Microbiology
MIC 433   Medical and Molecular Virology
MIC 438   Ecology of Infectious Diseases

Whitney TR, Duff GC, Collins JK, Henderson DA, Hallford DM. 2006. Effects of diet for early-weaned crossbred beef steers on metabolic profiles and febrile response to an infectious bovine herpesvirus-1. Livestock Science 101:1-9.

Powers JG, VanMetre DC, Collins JK, Dinsmore RP, Carman J, Patterson G, Brahmbhatt D, Callan RJ. 2005 Evaluation of ovine herpesvirus type 2 infections, as detected by competitive inhibition ELISA and polymerase chain reaction assay, in dairy cattle without clinical signs of malignant catarrhal fever. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2005 227:606-11.

Rosenstock, S.S., Ramberg, F., Collins, J.K., Rabe, M.J. 2003. Culicoides mohave (Diptera ceratopogonidae): New occurrence records and potential role in transmission of hemorrhagic disease. J. Med. Entomology 40(4) 577-579.

Mumford, E.L., Traub-Dargatz, J.L., Carman, J., Callan, R.J., Collins, J.K.,
Goltz, K.L., Romm, S., Tarr, S.F., Salman, M.D. 2003. Occurrence of
infectious upper respiratory tract disease and response to vaccination in
horses on six sentinel premises in northern Colorado. Equine Vet. J.
35;72-77.

Keel, M.K., Patterson, J.G., Noon, T.H., Bradley, G.A., Collins, J.K.2002.
Caprine Herpesvirus-2 in association with naturally occurring malignant
catarrhal fever in captive sika deer (Cervus nippon). J. Vet. Diagn.
Invest.15:179-183.

Dunowska M., Letchworth, G.L., Collins J.K., DeMartini, J.C. 2001. Ovine
herpewsvirus-2 glycoprotein B sequences from tissues of ruminant malignant
catarrhal fever cases and healthy sheep are highly conserved. J. Gen
Virology 82:2785-2790.

Wimsatt J., Jay, M.T., Innes K.E., Jessen M.J., Collins J.K. 2001.
Serological evaluation, efficacy, and safety of a commercial modified-live
canine distemper vaccine in domestic ferrets. Amer. J. Vet. Res. 62:736-740

Belknap, E.B., Collins, J.K., Larsen, S., Conrad, K.P. 2000. Bovine viral
diarrhea virus in New World camelids. J Vet Diagn Invest. 12:568-570.

Schultheiss, P.C., Collins, J.K., Spraker, T.S., Demartini, J.C. 2000.
Epizoootic malignant catarrhal fever in three bison herds: Differences from
catle and association with ovine herpesvirus-2. J Vet. Diagn Invest.
12:497-502.

Belknap EB, Walters LM, Kelling C, Ayers VK, Norris J, McMillen J, Hayhow C, Cochran M, Reddy DN, Wright J, Collins JK (1999) Immunogenicity and protective efficacy of a gE, gG and US2 gene-deleted bovine herpesvirus-1
(BHV-1) vaccine. Vaccine 17:2297-305.

Cascio KE, Belknap EB, Schultheiss PC, Ames AD, Collins JK (1999) Encephalitis induced by bovine herpesvirus 5 and protection by prior vaccination or infection with bovine herpesvirus 1. J Vet Diagn Invest 11:134-9.