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Identification of an immune modulation locus utilising a bovine mammary gland infection challenge model.
The Journal of dairy research - 1 May 2018
Littlejohn Mathew D, Turner Sally-Anne, Walker Caroline G, Berry Sarah D, Tiplady Kathryn, Sherlock Ric G, Sutherland Greg, Swift Simon, Garrick Dorian, Lacy-Hulbert S Jane, McDougall Scott, Spelman Richard J, Snell Russell G, Hillerton J Eric
Abstract excerpt
Inflammation of the mammary gland following bacterial infection, commonly known as mastitis, affects all mammalian species. Although the aetiology and epidemiology of mastitis in the dairy cow are well described, the genetic factors mediating resistance to mammary gland infection are not well known, due in part to the difficulty in obtaining robust phenotypic information from sufficiently large numbers of...
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