Production, reproductive, and metabolic factors associated with chlamydial seropositivity and reproductive tract antigens in dairy herds with fertility disorders

Theriogenology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 923-930

  Wehrend, Axel ^a   Failing, Klaus ^b   Hauser, Bernhard ^a   Jäger, Cornelie ^c   Bostedt, H ^a  

^a Klinik fur Geburtshilfe   (Germany)

^b Arbeitsgruppe Biomathematik und Datenverarbeitung   (Germany)

^c Inst F Hyg I   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlamydia infections; Dairy cow; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CHLAMYDIA; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HYPOCALCEMIA; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; OVARY CYST; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTERUS; VAGINA; VETERINARY ABORTION;

3-HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; ABORTION, VETERINARY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHLAMYDIA; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HYPOCALCEMIA; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LOGISTIC MODELS; OVARIAN CYSTS; RISK FACTORS; UTERUS; VAGINA;

BOS TAURUS; CHLAMYDIA;

EID: 11444250859     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2004.05.009     Document Type: Article

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