Bacterial community profiling of milk samples as a means to understand culture-negative bovine clinical mastitis.

Inflammation and infection of bovine mammary glands, commonly known as mastitis, imposes significant losses each year in the dairy industry worldwide. While several different bacterial species have been identified as causative agents of mastitis, many clinical mastitis cases remain culture negative,...

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Main Authors: Joanna S Kuehn, Patrick J Gorden, Daniel Munro, Ruichen Rong, Qunfeng Dong, Paul J Plummer, Chong Wang, Gregory J Phillips
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3636265?pdf=render