CAHFS Connection - September 2025

  • General: Blue Pigs: Diphacinone
  • Avian: Coccidiosis.
  • Bovine: Bovine leukemia virus- associated lymphoma; Leptospira sp. infection.
  • Equine: Cantharidin toxicosis; Cervical vertebral compressive myelopathy.
  • Porcine: Viral pneumonia.
  • Small Ruminant: Chronic congestive heart failure secondary to congenital defects; Bibersteinia trehalosis septicemia.
Holiday Schedule: Please see newsletter for details on the Labor Day holiday schedule.

CAHFS Connection - August 2025

  • Avian: Necrotic enteritis.
  • Bovine: Klebsiella pneumoniae septicemia.
  • Equine: Oleander toxicosis.
  • Porcine: Porcine circovirus-associated disease, porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome (PRRS), swine influenza (SI), and bacterial bronchopneumonia.
  • Small Ruminant: Clostridium perfringens type D enterotoxemia and aspiration pneumonia; Clostridial enterotoxemia type D.

CAHFS Connection - July 2025

  • Avian: Hemorrhagic liver syndrome; Verminous ventriculitis.
  • Bovine: Shipping fever pneumonia; Hairy vetch toxicosis-like disease, combined with moderate to severe copper and selenium deficiency.
  • Equine: Strangles with secondary infarctive purpura hemorrhagica.
  • Porcine: Otitis leading to meningitis and endocarditis and pneumonia.
  • Small Ruminant: Goiter; Abomasal parasitism.
  • Aquatic Species: Swim bladder disease and septicemia

CAHFS Connection - June 2025

  • Avian: Histomoniasis, colibacillosis, sinusitis and tracheitis; Valvular endocarditis.
  • Bovine: Vaccine reaction; Blackleg and pneumonia.
  • Equine: Colonic rupture.
  • Lagomorph: Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus 2 (RHDV2)
  • Small Ruminant: Caseous lymphadenitis and abomasal parasitism Clostridium perfringens type D enterotoxemia.
  • Wildlife: Sarcocystis sp.-associated encephalitis
Holiday Schedule: Please see newsletter for details on the Juneteenth holiday schedule.

CAHFS Connection - May 2025

  • Avian: Mycobacteriosis and coccidiosis; Diptheritic (wet) fowl pox.
  • Bovine: Pneumonia; Pine needle abortion.
  • Equine: Aortic rupture; Luteinized ovarian cyst/anovulatory hemorrhagic cyst.
  • Small Ruminant: Yersinia pseudotuberculosis enteritis
  • Wildlife: Sarcocystis sp.-associated encephalitis
Holiday Schedule: Please see newsletter for details on the Memorial Day holiday schedule.

CAHFS Connection - April 2025

  • Avian: A perforating foreign body in the crop; Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
  • Bovine: Listeria monocytogenes; Clostridium perfringens type C enteritis
  • Equine: Equine herpes virus type 1 (EHV-1) infection
  • Pigs: Swine erysipelas
  • Small Ruminant: Type D enterotoxemia; Campylobacter jejuni
Employment Opportunities: Bacteriology Technician, Staff Research Assistant 2 - Davis

CAHFS Connection - March 2025

  • Avian: Pharyngoesophageal squamous cell; Pigeon paramyxovirus type-1 (PPMV-1)
  • Bovine: Locoism; Mast cell tumor
  • Equine: Halicephalobus gingivalis was the cause of osteomyelitis; Comminuted fracture of the pelvis
  • Pigs: E. coli septicemia
  • Small Ruminant: Grayanotoxins; Actinobacillosis
Holiday Schedule: Please see newsletter for details on CAHFS laboratories’ closures in observance of Cesar Chavez Holiday. Employment Opportunities: Molecular Biologist, Staff Research - Davis

CAHFS Connection - February 2025

  • Avian: HPAI (H5 GsGD subtype), infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT), and infectious coryza; Rickets
  • Bovine: H5N1 Avian influenza (AI) virus; Bovine herpes virus 1 (BHV-1) encephalitis
  • Equine: Right temporohyoid osteoarthropathy
  • Pigs: Streptococcus suis septicemia; Mixed viral and parasitic infection
  • Small Ruminant: Toxoplasmosis;
  • Wildlife: Rabies; Tularemia
Holiday Schedule: Please see attached newsletter for details on CAHFS laboratories’ closures in observance of the President’s Day Holiday.

CAHFS Connection - January 2025

  • General: Highly pathogenic H5N1 (bird flu) influenza virus in poultry and cattle; Submission of milk and serum samples for H5N1 influenza testing; New! CAHFS Davis is able to test bovine milk and serum for antibodies against Influenza A virus
  • Avian: Avian pulmonary proteinosis; Pseudomonas aeruginosa septicemia
  • Bovine: H5N1 Avian influenza (AI) virus; Leptospira interrogans serovar pomona
  • Equine: Epiploic foramen entrapment and strangulation of the large colon; Actinobacillus equuli ssp. equuli neonatal septicemia
  • Pigs: Colonic sand impaction and mesocolon twist; Valvular endocarditis
  • Small Ruminant: Acute bacterial bronchopneumonia;
  • Wildlife: Rabies; Tularemia

CAHFS Connection - December 2024

  • Avian: Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI); West Nile virus (WNV) infection
  • Bovine: Fusobacterium necrophorum hepatic abscesses; Blackleg; Ureaplasma diversum; Actinomyces bovisosteomyelitis and jejunal hematoma
  • Equine: Pyrrolizidine alkaloid (PA)-induced chronic hepatopathy
  • Pigs: Discospondylitis and vertebral body osteomyelitis
  • Small Ruminant: Caprine arthritis and encephalitis virus (CAEV) interstitial pneumonia 

Holiday Schedule:  Please see attached newsletter for details on CAHFS laboratories’ closures in observance of the Winter Holiday and New Years’ Holiday.