The production system and disease incidence in a national random longitudinal study of Swiss dairy herds

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 1-21

  Frei, Christine ^a   Frei, Patrick P ^a   Stärk, Katharina D C ^a,b   Pfeiffer, Dirk U ^b   Kihm, Ueli ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c SWISS FEDERAL VETERINARY OFFICE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dairy cattle diseases; Disease incidence measures; Farm based data recording system; Prospective longitudinal observational study; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PREGNANCY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0031231252     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(97)00020-2     Document Type: Article

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