Munashe Chigerwe

Munashe Chigerwe

Professor and Agronomist

Medicine & Epidemiology

Office
3121 Tupper Hall, Davis, CA 95616

Licenses
Council of Veterinary Surgeons, Zimbabwe
Diplomate American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Education
2001, BVSc, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
2008, PhD, University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO
2008, MPH, University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO
2023, MSc Vet Ed, Royal Veterinary College, University of London,
Active Research Grants
Principal Investigator, Preweaned dairy calf health management on conventional and organic dairies in California: Determining management practices that require intervention, (Principal Investigator), California Department of Food and Agriculture
Co-Principal Investigator, Effects of extended colostrum feeding to calf-fed Holstein steers on health, growth performance, fecal resistome and carcass characteristics , Pedro Carvalho (Principal Investigator), California Department of Food and Agriculture
Most Recent Five Book Chapters
2020 Chigerwe M: Ruminant immunodeficiency diseases, Bradforrd P. Smith, David C. Van Metre, Nicola Pusterla, (ed), Large Animal Internal Medicine, . 1761-1762.
2020 House JK, Gunn AA, Chuck G, McGuirk SM, Chigerwe M
: Initial Management and Clinical Investigation of Neonatal Disease, Bradforrd P. Smith, David C. Van Metre, Nicola Pusterla, (ed), Large Animal Internal Medicine, . 315-334.
2019 Chigerwe M: Calf welfare, Terry Engle, Donald J. Klingborg, Bernard E. Rollin, (ed), Animal Welfare, . 305-311.
2017 Chigerwe M: Heartwater (Cowdriosis), Chase C, Lutz K, McKenzie E, and Tibary A, (ed), Blackwell's Five Minute Veterinary Consult: Ruminants, . .
2017 Chigerwe M: Bovine petechial fever, Chase C, Lutz K, McKenzie E, and Tibary A, (ed), Blackwell's Five Minute Veterinary Consult: Ruminants, . .
Research Focus
Primary Focus: Bovine neonatal immunology
  1. Dairy calf neonatal immunity.
  2. Wild ruminant neonatal immunity
Secondary Focus: Educational Research
  1. Mental health and wellness in veterinary medical students.
  2. Effect of curricular design on approaches to learning by veterinary medical students.
Specialty Focus
Livestock Medicine & Surgery
Ten Recent Publications

2024
Brobst MN, Abi-Nader BA, Blasczynski SJ, Chigerwe M^
Evaluation of a continuous glucose monitoring system in healthy dairy calves and adult goats

2024
King A, French H, Toka FN, Bandlow KS, Chigerwe M
Determination of minimum individual cow colostral immunoglobulin G concentration required to provide adequate total immunoglobulin G mass in pooled colostrum fed to Jersey calves

2024
Depenbrock SM, Schlesener C, Sharif Aly SS, Williams D, El Ashmawy W, McArthur G, Kristin Clothier K, Wenz J, Fritz H, Chigerwe M, Weimer B
Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in Respiratory Bacteria from Weaned Dairy Heifers

2024
Gamsjaeger L, Chigerwe M^
Clinical presentation, medical management, and outcomes in 35 hospitalized sheep diagnosed with bluetongue virus disease

2024
Morgan-Bustamante BL, Chigerwe M, Martinez-Lopez B, Aly SS, McArthur G, ElAshmawy WR, Fritz H, Williams DR, Wenz J, Depenbrock SM
Antimicrobial Susceptibility in Respiratory Pathogens and Farm and Animal Variables in Weaned California Dairy Heifers: Logistic Regression and Bayesian Network Analyses

2023
Angelos JA, Agulto RL, Mandzyuk B, Chigerwe M
Randomized controlled field trial to assess the efficacy of an intranasal Moraxella bovis cytotoxin vaccine against naturally occurring infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis

2023
Chigerwe M, Blasczynski SJ, Abi-Nader BA, Condy PM, Kretsch CM, Depenbrock SM
Continuous fluid infusion per rectum compared with intravenous fluid infusion in pigs

2023
Bandlow KS, King A, Kennicutt KC, Brody S, Chigerwe M
Transfer of Passive Immunity and Survival in Jersey Heifer Calves Fed Heat-Treated Pooled Colostrum

2023
Clergue SAC, Depenbrock SM, Chigerwe M
Effect of sample volume and time on rumen juice analysis in cattle

2022
Depenbrock S, Lane J, Asrat M, Poppenga R, Hargrave S, McNabb B, Eviner S, Chigerwe M
Grazing lambs on pastures regrown after wildfires did not significantly alter metal content in meat and wool