Effects of lamb sucking on the bacterial flora of teat duct and mammary gland of ewes

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 22-26

  Gougoulis, D A ^a   Kyriazakis, I ^a   Tzora, A ^b   Taitzoglou, I A ^c   Skoufos, J ^b   Fthenakis, G C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b Epirus Institute of Technology Arta   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTATION; MANNHEIMIA HAEMOLYTICA; MASTITIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SUCKLING; UDDER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; FEMALE; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MANNHEIMIA HAEMOLYTICA; MASTITIS; RISK FACTORS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MANNHEIMIA HAEMOLYTICA; OVIS ARIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 38149062941     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2007.00847.x     Document Type: Article

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