Exposure to pasture borne nematodes affects individual milk yield in Swedish dairy herds

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 188, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 93-98

  Blanco Penedo, I ^a   Hoglund J ^a   Fall, N ^a   Emanuelson, U ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cow level basis; Milk losses; Multivariable analysis; Ostertagia ostertagi

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BULK TANK MILK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; DICTYOCAULUS VIVIPARUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; INTERHERD VARIATION; INTRAHERD VARIATION; MILK; MILK PRODUCTION; MILK YIELD; MULTIPARA; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; OSTERTAGIA OSTERTAGI; OSTERTAGIASIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIMIPARA; SWEDEN;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; LACTATION; MILK; OSTERTAGIA; OSTERTAGIASIS; SWEDEN;

DICTYOCAULUS; DICTYOCAULUS VIVIPARUS; FASCIOLA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; NEMATODA; OSTERTAGIA; OSTERTAGIA OSTERTAGI; VERMES;

EID: 84863208948     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2012.02.024     Document Type: Article

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