Temporal trends in bulk milk antibodies to Salmonella, Neospora caninum, and Leptospira interrogans serovar hardjo in Irish dairy herds

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 343-348

  O'Doherty, E ^a,b   Sayers, R ^a   O'Grady, L ^b  

^a ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bulk milk; Herd prevalence; Ireland; L. hardjo; N. caninum; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; COCCIDIOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; IRELAND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; NEOSPORA; PARASITOLOGY; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; COCCIDIOSIS; FEMALE; IRELAND; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MILK; NEOSPORA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SEASONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

BOS; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS SEROVAR HARDJO; NEOSPORA CANINUM; SALMONELLA;

EID: 84875394698     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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