Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin and Clinical Mastitis: Incidence, Discarded Milk Following Therapy, and Culling

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3212-3218

  Judge, L J ^a   Erskine, R J ^a   Bartlett, P C ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bovine somatotropin; Mastitis

Indexed keywords

BOVINAE;

GROWTH HORMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STREPTOCOCCUS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GROWTH HORMONE; LACTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031309748     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(97)76294-5     Document Type: Article

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