School of Veterinary Medicine

Zoonotic Disease in Dogs Rises in Southern Chile After Deworming Program Canceled

by Kat Kerlin
December 19, 2022

Research

A parasitic disease, canine echinococcosis, has increased in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego province after a governmental dog deworming program was canceled in 2004, according to a study from the University of California, Davis’ One Health Institute and School of Veterinary Medicine.

Equine Research Highlights Relation Between an Epileptic Syndrome in Foals and Infants

by Trina Wood
November 21, 2022

Veterinary medicine continues to find commonalities among conditions that affect animals and humans. This week, Dr. Monica Aleman presented an overview at the Platinum Summit in San Antonio of Juvenile Idiopathic Epilepsy (JIE) in Egyptian Arabian foals—an epileptic syndrome similar to one found in infants.

Dr. Sue Stover Delivers Milne Lecture at AAEP

by Rob Warren
November 20, 2022

Research

UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine Professor Sue Stover delivered the Milne Lecture at 68th Annual American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) Convention in San Antonio.

FIP Research: New Hope For Cats (And Maybe Humans)

by Emily Singer, VMD - AAHA News
November 18, 2022

Research

Drs. Amir Kol, Krystle Reagan, and Brian Murphy are bringing new hope for cats with feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) with exciting new research and clinical trials at UC Davis.

Preventing Serious Brain Damage From Nerve Agents

by Amy Quinton
September 26, 2022

UC Davis is establishing a new center designed to develop ways to prevent long-term brain damage in humans when poisoned by organophosphate chemical nerve agents or pesticides.

Endangered Mouse Study Shares No-Contact Sampling Method

by Kat Kerlin
September 19, 2022

Research

Genetic sampling is important for understanding how to conserve and protect the world’s endangered mammals.

UC Davis Receives $10M for Pacific Southwest Center of Excellence

by Tom Hinds
September 09, 2022

Research

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently awarded a new 5-year, $10 million grant for UC Davis to continue its work with six other research universities in research, training, and outreach on vectors, which are organisms that transmit diseases from an animal to a human or another animal.

Novel Coronaviruses Are Riskiest for Spillover

by Kat Kerlin
August 25, 2022

Scientists from the University of California, Davis created network-based models to prioritize novel and known viruses for their risk of zoonotic transmission, which is when infectious diseases pass between animals and humans.

Study Reveals How the Ovarian Reserve Is Established

by Rob Warren
August 15, 2022

Research

Fertility is finite for mammalian females. From birth, females possess a limited number of primordial follicles, collectively called the ovarian reserve. Within each follicle is an oocyte that eventually becomes an egg. But with age, the follicles in the ovarian reserve decrease.

Guidelines to Lower Intake of Added Sugar are Necessary and Justified

by Dr. Kimber Stanhope
July 14, 2022

The lowering of dietary recommendations for the consumption of free or added sugar from 25% to 10% of daily calories has been criticized as being based on low-quality scientific evidence, ill-informed opinions and over-extrapolation of results from studies on sugar-sweetened beverages. This Comment by Dr. Kimber Stanhope rebuts these criticisms.

Cats Injured in Wildfires at Risk of Deadly Blood Clots

by Trina Wood
July 14, 2022

Cats who suffered burns and smoke inhalation in urban California wildfires are at risk of forming deadly blood clots, according to a new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis, Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital.

COVID-19 Antibodies From Eggs

by Andy Fell, UC Davis News
July 13, 2022

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have been able to produce antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in hen eggs. Antibodies harvested from eggs might be used to treat COVID-19 or as a preventative measure for people exposed to the disease.

COVID-19 in Animals: What to Fear and What to Learn

by IEEE Pulse
July 11, 2022

While COVID-19 has been racing through much of the human population, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has also turned up in other mammals. This leads to many questions.

UC Davis Interdisciplinary Research Teams Join Forces to Prepare for the Next Pandemic

by Neelanjana Gautam
June 30, 2022

On April 22, the Office of Research hosted a Team Research Forum with six experts to discuss the strength of interdisciplinary research in predictive intelligence so humans can better prepare themselves to navigate the risks of future pandemic challenges.

Genetic Analysis Identifies Novel Mutation in Standardbred Horse

by Rob Warren
June 01, 2022

Research

The field of genetics has enabled the prediction of susceptibility to heritable diseases and map the genome of many species. Now, modern genetics and the birth of a unique foal in New Zealand has provided a successful example of tracking a mutation at its origin.