Effects of dry cow treatment of beef cows on pathogenic organisms, milk somatic cell counts, and calf growth during the subsequent lactation

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 748-755

  Lents, C A ^a,c   Wettemann, R P ^a   Paape, M J ^b   Looper, M L ^a,d   Buchanan, D S ^a,e  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d DALE BUMPERS SMALL FARMS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beef cattle; Growth; Mastitis; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; NOVOBIOCIN; PROCAINE PENICILLIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUCKLING; UDDER; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATTLE; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; LACTATION; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK; NOVOBIOCIN; PENICILLIN G, PROCAINE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 40949155232     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/jas.2007-0369     Document Type: Article

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