Bovine mastitis in selected areas of southern Ethiopia

Tropical Animal Health and Production

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 197-205

  Kerro Dego, O ^a,b   Tareke, F ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Breed; Dairy cattle; Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Escherichia; Lactation; Mastitis; Prev alence; Risk factor; Season; Staphylococcus; Streptococcus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; INFESTATION; LACTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARITY; PREVALENCE; SEASON;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CATTLE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; LACTATION; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK; PARITY; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TICK INFESTATIONS;

ACARI; ACTINOMYCES; ANIMALIA; ARCANOBACTERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS INDICUS; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRIESIA; MICROCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 0037687888     PISSN: 00494747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023352811751     Document Type: Article

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