Lack of evidence for an association between MHC diversity and the development of bovine neonatal pancytopenia in Holstein dairy cattle.

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Bovine neonatal pancytopenia (BNP), a disease of neonatal calves, has been described in a number of European countries since 2006. The disease results in high mortality of calves aged 1-4 weeks and is characterised by severe bone marrow pathology resulting in profound thrombocytopenia and consequent haemorrhagic diathesis. A number of hypotheses including a novel virus infection, plant toxins, a vaccine...

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