The cost and management of different types of clinical mastitis in dairy cows estimated by dynamic programming

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4476-4487

  Cha, E ^a   Bar, D ^b   Hertl, J A ^a   Tauer, L W ^c   Bennett, G ^a   Gonzalez R N ^a   Schukken, Y H ^a   Welcome, F L ^a   Grohn Y T ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b SCR Engineers Ltd   (Israel)

^c Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming; Gram negative; Gram positive; Mastitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BOVINE MASTITIS; CATTLE; COST; DAIRYING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; LACTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATTLE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; LACTATION; MARKOV CHAINS; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK; MODELS, ECONOMIC; PREGNANCY;

NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 80051750050     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2010-4123     Document Type: Article

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