Monitoring herd incidence of intramammary infection in lactating cows using repeated longitudinal somatic cell count measurements

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1568-1580

  Dufour, S ^a,b   Dohoo, I R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^b Canadian Bovine Mastitis Research Network   (Canada)

Author keywords

Incidence; Intramammary infection; Lactating period; Somatic cell count

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BOVINE MASTITIS; CATTLE; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; LACTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; LACTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK;

EID: 84874300122     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2012-5902     Document Type: Article

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