Epidemiology of coagulase-negative staphylococci intramammary infection in dairy cattle and the effect of bacteriological culture misclassification

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3110-3124

  Dufour, S ^a,b   Dohoo, I R ^a,c   Barkema, H W ^a,d   DesCoteaux L ^a,b   DeVries, T J ^a,e   Reyher, K K ^a,c   Roy, J P ^a,b   Scholl, D T ^a,f  

^a Canadian Bovine Mastitis Research Network   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^f SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coagulase negative staphylococci; Dairy cow; Mastitis; Misclassification

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BOVINE MASTITIS; CANADA; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CANADA; CATTLE; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BOS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 84862062709     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2011-5164     Document Type: Article

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