Defining and diagnosing postpartum clinical endometritis and its impact on reproductive performance in dairy cows

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2223-2236

  LeBlanc, S J ^a   Duffield, T F ^a   Leslie, K E ^a   Bateman, K G ^a   Keefe, G P ^b   Walton, J S ^a   Johnson, W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Endometritis; Pregnancy rate; Vaginoscopy

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOSCOPY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; PALPATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL DISORDER; REPRODUCTION; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS; VAGINA; VAGINA DISCHARGE;

ANIMALS; BIRTH INTERVALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CERVIX UTERI; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; PALPATION; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; REPRODUCTION; UTERUS; VAGINA; VAGINAL DISCHARGE;

EID: 0036728467     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(02)74302-6     Document Type: Article

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