Effects of using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to monitor the control of Staphylococcus aureus mastitis in dairy herds
<p>Bovine mastitis is the most important economic disease to the dairy industry with losses estimated at 2 billion dollars per year in the United States. Staphylococcus aureus (.§.. aureus) is the primary cause of contagious mastitis. Conventional culture methods (National Mastitis Council) w...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42101 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04142009-040817/ |