This study utilized daily records of 2000 Egyptian Holstein dairy cows. The productive, reproductive and economic data during a whole lactation season were recorded for healthy and mastitis cows. Two risk factors for mastitis were included, parity and season of calving. Mastitis cows had significant (P

The aim of the study was to define the species of microorganisms isolated from the uterus of healthy cows (control group) and cows affected with foetal membrane retained (FMR) before and after an experimental therapy with the use of an immunomodulator and antibiotics versus commonly used methods (antibiotic + ß-blocker or antibiotic + PGF2α). The examinations were carried out on three farms wit...

Knowledge of how vaginal and uterine microbiomes are composed is essential to prevent diseases understand their pathogenesis. For this purpose, 50 dairy cows were involved in a prospective trial. Cows clinically examined swabs taken (day 2, 4, 6 14 p.p.), followed up by clinical examination on day 21 ± 1 41 1. All samples (n = 364) analyzed with cultural bacteriological methods bacteria identif...

The purpose of this study was to assess the diagnostic value of fibrinogen, haptoglobin, and serum amyloid A determination in the monitoring of the treatment of limb diseases in dairy cows. Fourteen lame cows were examined, while 10 clinically healthy cows constituted the control group. Blood samples from the ill animals were collected on three occasions: (1) upon arrival at the clinic, (2) bet...

The aim of this study was to assess infectious foot diseases, including identification and characterization of Dichelobacter nodosus and Treponema spp., in herds having problems with interdigital dermatitis (ID) and heel horn erosion (E) and in control herds expected to have few problems. We also wanted to compare diseased and healthy cows in all herds. The study included 14 dairy herds with a ...

Heritabilities and genetic and phenotypic correlations were estimated for subjectively scored milkability and leakage, clinically recorded mastitis, somatic cell score (SCS) and milk production using data from Finnish sire sampling program, health and milk recording system. Four sets of data were analyzed using multi-trait REML included in DMU-package with sire model. The data consisted of 23,8...

this study utilized daily records of 2000 egyptian holstein dairy cows. the productive, reproductive and economic data during a whole lactation season were recorded for healthy and mastitis cows. two risk factors for mastitis were included, parity and season of calving. mastitis cows had significant (p

Sera samples from 89 dairy cows with repeat breeder and 94 healthy pregnant dairy cows (controls) from Elazig province of eastern Turkey were tested for presence of Neospora caninum antibodies by use of a competitive enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (cELISA). Fifteen out of 183 cows tested (8.19%) were found to be seropositive to N. caninum antibody. Overall, seroprevalence of N. caninum was s...

Footrot is a debilitating and contagious disease in dairy cows, caused by the Gram-negative anaerobe Dichelobacter nodosus. 1H-NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance)-based metabolomics has been previously used to understand the pathology and etiology of several diseases. The objective of this study was to characterize serum from dairy cows with footrot (n=10) using 1H-NMR-based metabolomics and chemo...

The aim of the study was to characterize bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) infection in pregnant cows and their foetuses. Blood samples from 64 clinically healthy cows, determined as pregnant after slaughter, and from their foetuses were collected into tubes with and without EDTA. In total 128 blood samples were examined for BVDV antibodies and 128 leukocyte samples for BVDV antigens by direc...