Risk factors for intramammary infections and relationship with somatic-cell counts in Italian dairy goats

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 163-173

  Moroni, P ^a   Pisoni, G ^a   Ruffo, G ^a   Boettcher, P J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dairy goats; Intramammary infections; Parity; Somatic cell counts

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; LACTATION; MASTITIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; ITALY; LACTATION; MASTITIS; MILK; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAPRA HIRCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; SALMONELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 19544384930     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2004.10.013     Document Type: Article

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