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Pseudomonas fluorescens group bacterial strains are responsible for repeat and sporadic post-pasteurization contamination and reduced fluid milk shelf life.
Discipline: contamination; Key words: post-pasteurization contamination, Pseudomonas, shelf-life, spoilage, crystal violet, tetrazolium agar.
Interaction between feed use efficiency and level of dietary crude protein on enteric methane emission and apparent nitrogen use efficiency with Norwegian Red dairy cows.
Discipline: environment; Key words: dietary crude protein, enteric methane, feed use efficiency, urinary nitrogen.
Economic and epidemiological impact of different intervention strategies for clinical contagious mastitis
Discipline: mastitis; Key words: treatment, culling, cow-specific, simulation model.
The cost-benefit of genomic testing of heifers and using sexed semen in pasture-based dairy herds.
Discipline: breeding; Key words: genomic testing, rate of genetic gain, sexed semen
Factors associated with profitability in pasture-based systems of milk production
Discipline: economics; Key words: dairy system, pasture-based milk production, cost control, profit
Bifidobacterium bifidum YIT 10347 fermented milk exerts beneficial effects on gastrointestinal discomfort and symptoms in healthy adults: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study.
Discipline: dairy & health; Key words: probiotics, functional dyspepsia, gastro-intestinal symptom, healthy adult.
Interrelations between the rumen microbiota and production, behavioral, rumen fermentation, metabolic, and immunological attributes of dairy cows.
Discipline: fermentation/digestion; Key words: rumen microbiota, feed efficiency, behavior, PCA
Milk progesterone on day 5 following insemination in the dairy cow: associated metabolic variables and reproductive consequences.
Discipline: reproduction; Key words:conception rate, dairy cow, leptin, metabolic variables, milk progesterone.
Impact of cows’ milk estrogen on cancer risk.
Discipline: dairy &health; Key words: oestrogens, dairy products, endometrial cancer, nutrients, meta-analysis.
Differential effects of a single dose of oral calcium based on postpartum plasma calcium concentration in Holstein cows.
Discipline: hypocalcaemia; Key words: oral calcium bolus, subclinical hypocalcaemia, transition cow.