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Raw Milk May Do More Harm Than Good

Posted by Trina Wood on July 01, 2020
Raw or unpasteurized cows’ milk from U.S. retail stores can hold a huge amount of antimicrobial-resistant genes if left at room temperature, according to a new study from UC Davis researchers.
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Air Quality Impacts Early Brain Development

Posted by Trina Wood on June 17, 2020
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found a link between traffic-related air pollution and an increased risk for changes in brain development relevant to neurodevelopmental disorders.
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SVM/One Health Institute COVID-19 Response Town Hall Meeting Report

Posted by Trina Wood on April 14, 2020
On April 9, 2020, faculty experts from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine’s (SVM) One Health Institute and the California National Primate Research Center led a virtual town hall to present updates on SVM’s COVID-19 response efforts.
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USAID PREDICT interns conduct lab work at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania. (Courtesy USAID PREDICT)

PREDICT Receives Extension for COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency Response

Posted by Trina Wood on April 03, 2020
PREDICT will provide emergency support to other countries for outbreak response including technical support for early detection of SARS CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease COVID-19, through a six-month extension from the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, effective April 1.
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Genome Variation Gives Insight Into Coronavirus Spread

Posted by Trina Wood on April 02, 2020
As SARS-CoV-2 has spread around the world, its transmission rate has varied alongside variations in its genome, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis.
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UC Davis Researchers Race to Develop Coronavirus Solutions

Posted by Trina Wood on March 25, 2020
Clinical pathologists, infectious disease physicians and scientists at the UC Davis Medical Center, School of Medicine, California National Primate Research Center and Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases (a unique partnership between the Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine) are collaborating on new reagents, diagnostic tests and a vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus. Their goal is to unravel the biology and infectious pathology of this new virus, and to develop means for prevention and ultimately treatment. 
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Can Pets Contract Coronavirus from Humans or Vice Versa?

Posted by Trina Wood on February 06, 2020
Dr. Niels Pedersen, a distinguished emeritus professor at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and a renowned expert on infectious and immunologic diseases in dogs and cats, says our pets are not at risk of contracting COVID-19.
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Celebrating National One Health Awareness Month in January

Posted by Trina Wood on January 10, 2020
As we start a new decade, the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine is participating in a national campaign to promote the value of One Health, a collaborative approach to finding new solutions that benefit animal, human and environmental health.
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Smita Iyer and colleagues at the UC Davis Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases and California National Primate Research Center worked with rhesus macaques to study how microbes in the rectum affected an experimental HIV vaccine, and vice versa. The vaccine produced stronger antibody responses when certain bacteria were present, they found. (K. West/UC Davis)

Rectal Microbes Influence Effectiveness of HIV Vaccine

Posted by Trina Wood on December 13, 2019
Microbes living in the rectum could make a difference to the effectiveness of experimental HIV vaccines, according to research led by Smita Iyer, assistant professor at the UC Davis Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases and School of Veterinary Medicine. 
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Microscopic images showing protective effects of L. plantarum on mitochondrial structure and density in SIV-infected gut.

Mapping the Pathway to Gut Health in HIV and SIV Infections

Posted by Trina Wood on November 20, 2019
Katti (Horng) Crakes, doctoral student in the schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis, served as first author on a UC Davis research study that found that the damaged gut lining (known as leaky gut) in monkeys infected with chronic simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), an HIV-like virus, was rapidly repaired within five hours of receiving Lactobacillus plantarum bacteria. The outcome lends hope that leaky gut, a common condition among HIV patients, could be effectively treated in the future.
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CAHFS Faculty Honored Distinguished Awards for Protecting Food and Animal Health

Posted by Trina Wood on October 31, 2019

by Caitlin Khorey, Communications intern

Congratulations are due to Drs. Beate Crossley and Francisco Uzal who were recently honored with distinguished awards at the annual meeting of American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (AAVLD) and the United States Animal Health Association (USAHA). Crossley and Uzal are both faculty members with the school’s California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System (CAHFS). 

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New Approach for Canine Epilepsy

Posted by Trina Wood on October 30, 2019
Researchers and clinicians at UC Davis veterinary hospital are evaluating a novel technique to better understand and treat canine epilepsy.
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Scientists sample a bat as part of disease surveillance.

USAID Award Supports New $85M Project Led by UC Davis One Health Institute

Posted by Trina Wood on October 25, 2019
The U.S. Agency for International Development will award up to $85 million over the next five years to the University of California, Davis’ One Health Institute and consortium partners to implement the One Health Workforce—Next Generation project.
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Dr. Tapakorn Chamchoy collecting a fecal slurry sample at a California dairy for his MPVM project.

MPVM Program Builds Knowledge and Connections

Posted by Trina Wood on October 21, 2019

When Dr. Tapakorn Chamchoy began looking into programs that would give him solid training in statistical analysis and diagnostic test evaluation, he couldn’t imagine that would involve visiting California dairy farms to obtain fecal slurry samples. But that’s where his Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine (MPVM) degree took him. 

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