Risk factors and impacts of clinical and subclinical mastitis in commercial meat-producing sheep flocks in Quebec, Canada

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 87, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 373-393

  Arsenault, Julie ^a   Dubreuil, Pascal ^a   Higgins, Robert ^a   Bélanger, Denise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Incidence; Mastitis; Mortality; Risk factors; Sheep; Weaning weight

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANADA; FEMALE; MASTITIS; MICROBIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; WEANING;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; MASTITIS; QUEBEC; RISK FACTORS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; WEANING;

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

EID: 52349083406     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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