A rational approach to dry cow therapy 1. Udder health priorities during the dry period

In Practice

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 582-587

  Green, Martin ^a   Huxley, Jon ^b   Bradley, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b Farm Animal Production Medicine   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CASEIN; CITRIC ACID; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; GLYCEROL; LACTOFERRIN; MILK FAT;

ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; COLOSTRUM; COW; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; LACTATION; MASTITIS; NONHUMAN; UDDER; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036862001     PISSN: 0263841X     EISSN: 20427689     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/inpract.24.10.582     Document Type: Article

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