Factors Prior to Dry Period Associated with High and Low Levels of Cow Milk Somatic Cell Counts in Next Lactation

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-77

  Osteras O ^a   Edge, V L ^b  

^a TINE SA   (Norway)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Culling decision; Mastitis; SCC; Selective dry cow therapy; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BENESTERMYCIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PENETHAMATE HYDROIODIDE; PENICILLIN G;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SECRETION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATTLE; CELL COUNT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; LACTATION; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PENICILLIN G; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0033642554     PISSN: 0044605X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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