Quarter-milk somatic cell count at calving and at the first six milkings after calving

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-9

  Barkema, H W ^a   Deluyker, H A ^b   Schukken, Y H ^c   Lam, T J G M ^c  

^a Animal Health Service Drachten   (Netherlands)

^b Pharmacia and Upjohn NV   (Belgium)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cattle; Intra mammary infection; Postpartum period; Somatic cell count

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PUERPERAL DISORDER; PUERPERIUM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; MILK; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PUERPERAL DISORDERS;

EID: 0033030018     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(98)00142-1     Document Type: Article

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