Evaluation of test-day milk somatic cell count to predict intramammary infection in late lactation grazing dairy cows

ABSTRACT: Use of selective dry cow antimicrobial therapy requires to precisely differentiate cows with an intramammary infection (IMI) from uninfected cows close to drying-off to enable treatment allocation. Milk somatic cell count (SCC) is an indicator of an inflammatory response in the mammary gla...

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Published in:	Journal of Dairy Science
Main Authors:	C. Clabby, A. Valldecabres, P. Dillon, S. McParland, S. Arkins, K. O'Sullivan, J. Flynn, J. Murphy, P. Silva Boloña
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2023-07-01
Subjects:	mastitis dry cow therapy dry-off predictive values somatic cell count
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030223002928