Effects of seasonal heat stress on the diagnosis of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in Texas dairy cattle

The validity of Johne??s disease herd status programs and on-farm disease control programs that rely on established ??cutpoints?? (e.g., S/P ratios) for ELISA serological tests such as the HerdChek?? (IDEXX Laboratories Inc., Westbrook, Maine) may be susceptible to varied seasonal test accuracy. An...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strickland, Summer J.
Other Authors: Scott, H. Morgan
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Texas A&M University 2005
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2728