Use of somatic cell counts and California mastitis test results from individual quarter milk samples to detect subclinical intramammary infection in dairy cattle from a herd with a high bulk tank somatic cell count

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 224, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 419-423

  Middleton, John R ^a   Hardin, David ^a   Steevens, Barry ^b   Randle, Richard ^a   Tyler, Jeff W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL COUNT; DAIRY CATTLE; FEMALE; MASTITIS; MILK; NONHUMAN; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CATTLE; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; MASS SCREENING; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; FRIESIA;

EID: 0942287647     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2004.224.419     Document Type: Article

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