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High Prevalence of <em>Prototheca Bovis </em>Infection in Dairy Cattle with Chronic Mastitis in Ecuador
2022-09-23
Abstract excerpt
The genus Prototheca, unicellular, non-photosynthetic, yeast-like microalgae, is a pathogen of concern for the dairy industry causing bovine mastitis that currently cannot be cured and hence generates significant economic losses in milk production. In this study, for the first time in Ecuador, we identify Prototheca bovis as the etiologic agent of chronic mastitis in dairy cattle. Milk samples (n=458) of cows with...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a5de2878-ad80-5c7a-ba4b-deaa148406dd
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202209.0357.v1
