Direct and indirect effects of subclinical mastitis treatment in dairy herds

The objective of this research is to evaluate the impact of treatment of subclinical mastitis on duration of infection and mastitis transmission in dairy herds. We describe the use of a deterministic state-transition model of intramammary infections (IMI) to predict the impact of subclinical mastiti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Barlow, J, Nightingale, C, Zadoks, R, White, L, Schukken, Y
Format: Book section
Published: Wageningen Academic Publishers 2005