Article
A study on the role of the foot skin microbiome and the host's genetics in the development of lameness causing foot lesions in dairy cattle
2018-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Lameness is one of the major health and welfare problems for the global dairy cattle industry causing detrimental economic losses. Lameness has been associated with foot lesions of both infectious and non-infectious aetiology. Digital dermatitis (DD) is one of the infectious disorders and has been associated with several bacteria, particularly of the genus Treponema. The main non-infectious lameness causing claw h...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8e78e850-fcf5-5f67-b723-8d9e004c3005
- DOI
- 10.17638/03031447
