Article
Preventing Postpartum Uterine Disease in Dairy Cattle Depends on Avoiding, Tolerating and Resisting Pathogenic Bacteria
2019-08-12
Abstract excerpt
Up to forty percent of dairy cows can develop metritis or endometritis when bacteria infect the uterus after parturition. However, it is unclear why other cows exposed to similar pathogens do not develop uterine disease. We suggest that resilient dairy cows prevent the development of uterine disease using the three complimentary defensive strategies of avoiding, tolerating and resisting infection with pathogenic b...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ebf53b66-9409-52a5-982a-f34064df09b9
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints201908.0140.v1
