Conceptual modeling of postmortem evaluation findings to describe dairy cow deaths

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 373-386

  McConnel, C S ^a   Garry, F B ^a   Hill, A E ^a   Lombard, J E ^a,b   Gould, D H ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND ANIMAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cow; Dairy; Mortality; Necropsy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; FEMALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77749333444     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2009-2296     Document Type: Article

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