Milton M. McAllister
Associate Professor, Pathobiology
Clinical Associate Professor, Pathology--Chicago Campus
Professional Interests: Investigation of transmission and prevention of protozoal diseases. Organisms studied include: 1) Neospora caninum, which cycles between canids and ruminants (see life cycle diagram) and is an economically important cause of abortion in cattle; 2) Toxoplasma gondii, which cycles between felids and their prey, and can cause disease in many species including humans and endangered mammals; and 3) Plasmodium gallinaceum, which causes malaria in chickens (see photos), and has many important advantages as an animal model of human falciparum malaria.
Selected Publications: (click here to request electronic copies)
Costa KS, Santos SL, Uzêda RS, Pinheiro AM, Almeida MAO, Araújo FR, McAllister MM, Gondim LFP. Chickens (Gallus domesticus) are natural intermediate hosts of Neospora caninum. International Journal for Parasitology, 38:157-159, 2008.
McCann CM, McAllister MM, Gondim LFP, Smith RF, Cripps PJ, Kipar A, Williams DJL, Trees AJ. Neospora caninum in cattle: experimental infection with oocysts can result in exogenous transplacental infection, but not endogenous transplacental infection in the subsequent pregnancy. International Journal for Parasitology, 37:1631-1639, 2007.
Paulman A, McAllister MM. Plasmodium gallinaceum: clinical progression, recovery, and resistance to disease in chickens infected via mosquito bite. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 73:1104-110, 2005.
McAllister MM. A decade of discoveries in veterinary protozoology changes our concept of “subclinical” toxoplasmosis. Veterinary Parasitology, 132:241-247, 2005.
McAllister MM, Wallace RL, Björkman C, Gao L, Firkins LD. A probable source of infection in an outbreak of neosporosis abortion in dairy cows. Bovine Practitioner, 39:69-74, 2005.
Gondim LFP, McAllister MM, Anderson-Sprecher RC, Björkman C, Lock TF, Firkins LD, Gao L, Fischer W. Transplacental transmission and abortion in cows administered Neospora caninum oocysts. Journal of Parasitology, 90:1394-1400, 2004.
Gondim LFP, McAllister MM, Mateus-Pinilla NE, Pitt WC, Mech LD, Nelson ME. Transmission of Neospora caninum between wild and domestic animals. Journal of Parasitology, 90:1361-1365, 2004.
Gondim LFP, McAllister MM, Pitt WC, Zemlicka DE. Coyotes (Canis latrans) are definitive hosts of Neospora caninum. International Journal for Parasitology, 34:159-161, 2004.
Gondim LFP, Gao L, McAllister MM. Improved production of Neospora caninum oocysts, cyclical oral transmission between dogs and cattle, and in vitro isolation from oocysts. Journal of Parasitology, 88:1159-1163, 2002.
McAllister MM, Björkman C, Anderson-Sprecher R, Rogers, DG: Evidence of point source exposure to Neospora caninum and protective immunity in a herd of beef cows. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 217:881-887, 2000.
McAllister MM, Dubey JP, Lindsay DS, Jolley WR, Wills RA, McGuire AM: Dogs are definitive hosts of Neospora caninum. International Journal for Parasitology, 28:1473-1478, 1998.
McAllister MM, Parmley SF, Weiss LM, Welch VJ, McGuire AM: An immunohistochemical method for detecting bradyzoite antigen (BAG5) in Toxoplasma gondii -infected tissue cross-reacts with a Neospora caninum bradyzoite antigen. Journal of Parasitology, 82:354-355, 1996.
McAllister MM, Huffman EM, Hietala SK, Conrad PA, Anderson ML, Salman MD: Evidence suggesting a point source exposure in an outbreak of bovine abortion due to neosporosis. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, 8:355-357, 1996.
