Richard Van Vleck Pereira

Richard Van Vleck Pereira

Associate Professor and Associate Agronomist

Population Health & Reproduction

Office
3005 VM3B, Davis, CA 95616

Licenses
Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine
Education
2007, Externship, Washington State University, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Pullman, WA
2008, BVSc, Federal University of Uberlandia, Uberlandia, MG, Brazil
2009, Intern, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2011, Resident Certificate, Cornell University Hospital for Animals (CUHA), Ithaca, NY
2015, Ph.D., Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, NY
Active Research Grants
Co-Principal Investigator, Antimicrobials used for Treatment of Disease: Developing Methods to reduce the use of Critically Important Antimicrobials on Dairy Farms, Gregory Habing (Principal Investigator), USDA NIFA
Co-Principal Investigator, A systems approach to improve quality and shelf life of organic dairy products for domestic and export markets, Martin Wiedman (Principal Investigator), USDA-NIFA-OREI
Co-Investigator, Capacity Building Using Train-the-Trainer Approach to Improve Biosecurity and Reduce Disease Spread in Small-scale and Backyard Livestock and Poultry Premises , Alda Pires (Principal Investigator), USDA-National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program (NADPRP)
Principal Investigator, Evaluation of an Antibiogram Framework from Commercial Dairy Farms in California for Bovine Respiratory Disease Bacterial Pathogens., (Principal Investigator), California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA)
Principal Investigator, Characterizing the nasopharyngeal microbiome, resistome, and virulome of preweaned dairy calves for the identification of BRD biomarkers, (Principal Investigator),
Co-Principal Investigator, Characterizing plasma and uterine-vaginal discharge metabolome associated with metritis cure in dairy cows, Fabio Lima (Principal Investigator),
Co-Principal Investigator, Equine placentitis: new approaches to an old problem, Pouya Dini (Principal Investigator), Grayson Jockey Club Research Grant
Co-Principal Investigator, Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank (FARAD), Lisa Tell (Principal Investigator), USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
Co-Principal Investigator, Effect of waste milk on microbiome, immunity and gut health in dairy calves, Viviani Gomes (Principal Investigator), State of Sao Paulo Foundation for Research Support (FAPESP)
Honors and Awards
2012-2015 Training Research Fellowship, Cornell University Graduate Program in Comparative Medicine.
Organization conferring the award: Executive Committee of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) sponsored training grant entitled, “Graduate Program in Comparative Medicine”, Cornell.
Reason for the receipt of the award: in recognition of academic performance and potential to become
an independent, nationally competitive investigator.
Award’s professional significance: program supported training cost related to the PhD in the Graduate Program in Comparative Medicine.
Year the award was received: 2012 to 2015 (annual reappointment after evaluation of progress report)
link to the award: no link available
This award was supported through a NIH-T32 PI: John Parker.
Research Focus
My research interest is to promote livestock health through the development and promotion of a sustainable animal agriculture system that implements animal health and production practices that support the judicious use of resources (including antimicrobial drugs), and are efficient, environmentally sound, and economically feasible. My research focus is to have a deeper understanding of the emergence, persistence and transmission of antimicrobial resistant and zoonotic bacteria in livestock with the aim of develop interventions to reduce and/or prevent the spread of disease and drug resistance.
Specialty Focus
Food Animal Herd Health & Reproduction; Epidemiology; Antimicrobial Resistance
Ten Recent Publications

2022
Richards E, Pereira RV^, Davis J, Rowe JD, Clapham M, Wetzlich S, Rupchis B, Tell L
Comparison of Florfenicol Depletion in Dairy Goat Milk Using Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography with Tandem Mass Spectrometry and a Commercial On-farm Test

2022
Basbas C, Garzon A, Silva-del-Rio N, Byrne BA, Karle B, Aly SS, Champagne JD, Williams DR, Lima FS, Machado VS, Pereira RV^
Evaluation of antimicrobial resistance and risk factors for recovery of intrauterine Escherichia coli from cows with metritis on California commercial dairy farms

2022
Fritz HM, Pereira RV, Toohey-Kurth K, Marshall E, Tucker J, Clothier KA
Salmonella enterica Serovar Dublin from Cattle in California from 1993–2019: Antimicrobial Resistance Trends of Clinical Relevance

2022
Basbas C, Aly S, Okello E, Karle BM, Lehenbauer T, Williams D, Ganda E, Wiedmann M, Pereira RV^
Effect of Intramammary Dry Cow Antimicrobial Treatment on Fresh Cow’s Milk Microbiota in California Commercial Dairies

2022
Astorga-Jorquera F, Aly SS, Cornuy C, Mella A, Ulloa F, Pereira R^
First test-day post-calving risk factors as predictors of clinical mastitis in Southern Chile dairy farms: A retrospective cohort study

2022
Garzon A, Habing G, Lima F, Silva-del-Rio N, Samah F, Pereira RV^
Defining clinical diagnosis and treatment of puerperal metritis in dairy cows: A Scoping Review

2021
Cella E, Okello E, Rossitto PV, Cenci-Goga BT, Grispoldi L, Williams DR, Sheedy DB, Pereira R, Karle BM, Lehenbauer TW, Aly SS
Estimating the rate of acquisition and loss of resistance of Enterobacteriaceae to antimicrobial drugs in pre-weaned dairy calves

2021
Silva-Del-Río N, Valldecabres A, Espadamala A, García-Muñoz A, Pallares P, Lago A, Lima FS, Pereira RV
Treatment practices after calving-related disorders in 45 dairy farms in California

2021
de Oliveira EB, Ferreira FC, Galvão KN, Youn J, Tagkopoulos I, Silva-Del-Rio N, Pereira RVV, Machado VS, Lima FS
Integration of statistical inferences and machine learning algorithms for prediction of metritis cure in dairy cows

2021
Wang Y, Pandey PK, Kuppu S, Pereira R, Aly S, Zhang R
Degradation of antibiotic resistance genes and mobile gene elements in dairy manure anerobic digestion