Effectiveness of selected premilking teat-cleaning regimes in reducing teat microbial load on commercial dairy farms

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 295-300

  Gibson, H ^a   Sinclair, L A ^b   Brizuela, C M ^b   Worton, H L ^a   Protheroe, R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dairy hygiene; Milk quality; Premilking; Teat bacterial load; Teat cleaning

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; CLEANING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FARMS;

'DRY' [; BACTERIAL LOAD; DAIRY FARMS; DAIRY HYGIENE; MICROBIAL LOADS; MILK QUALITY; PREMILKING; TEAT BACTERIAL LOAD; TEAT CLEANING; TOTAL VIABLE COUNTS;

DAIRIES;

CHLORINE; HYPOCHLORITE; IODINE;

BACTERIA; CHLORINE; CONTAMINATION; DAIRY PRODUCTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIUM; CATTLE; CHLORINE; CLEANING BEHAVIOR; DAIRY FARMING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IODINE; MILK;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CLEANING; DAIRY CATTLE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROORGANISM; NIPPLE; NONHUMAN; REDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 39149089326     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2007.02308.x     Document Type: Article

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