An estimation of the clinical mastitis incidence per 100 cows per year based on routinely collected herd data

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 6965-6977

  Santman Berends, I M G A ^a   Lam, T J G M ^a,b   Keurentjes, J ^a   van Schaik, G ^a  

^a GD ANIMAL HEALTH   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clinical mastitis; Dairy cattle; Predictive modeling; Routinely collected herd data

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BOVINE; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; DAIRYING; FEMALE; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK; NETHERLANDS; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CATTLE; CELL COUNT; DAIRYING; FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84942549243     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2015-9642     Document Type: Article

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