Mastitis in dairy production: current knowledge and future solutions

Worldwide, mastitis is still one of the most important diseases in the dairy sector. Being a multifactorial disease, caused by multiple pathogens, control remains a difficult issue. Mastitis not only affects the health of milk-producing animals, having consequences for the profitability of dairy far...

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Körperschaft: IDF International Mastitis Conference < 2005, Maastricht, Netherlands> (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Wageningen Wageningen Academic Publishers 2005
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Zusammenfassung:Worldwide, mastitis is still one of the most important diseases in the dairy sector. Being a multifactorial disease, caused by multiple pathogens, control remains a difficult issue. Mastitis not only affects the health of milk-producing animals, having consequences for the profitability of dairy farms, it also affects the animal welfare. Moreover, mastitis negatively influences the milk quality having consequences for the dairy processing industry. In other words: mastitis affects a large part of the dairy production chain. Due to ongoing scientific effort, insight in mastitis in the context of increasingly complex farming systems, is improving. This insight leads to better methods to control mastitis, either by prevention or by adequate measures (e.g. therapy) when a cow (or goat or sheep) gets mastitis. This book reflects the current knowledge from all over the world on mastitis as it was presented during the 4th IDF I
Beschreibung:Proceedings of the 4th IDF International Mastitis Conference, held in Maastricht, the Netherlands in 2005. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (744 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:908686550X
9789086865505
DOI:10.3920/978-90-8686-550-5

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