Animal behaviour and welfare in intensive production systems

• Associations of cow comfort indices with total lying time, stall standing time, and lameness
• Interaction of lameness with sand and mattress surfaces in dairy cow freestalls
• Electric and magnetic fields (EMF) affect milk production and bevavior of cows
• Effect of roughages added to the milk replacer diet of veal calves on behavior and gastric development
• Transportation stress of cattle by railway
• Production diseases in farm animals

Infection and infectious diseases associated with production systems

• Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome (PMWS) in pigs
• Influence of growth conditions on caprine nasal bacterial flora in the presence of
• Mannhemia hameolytica
• The relationship between exposure to bovine viral diarrhea virus and fertility in a commercial dairy herd
• Tritrichomonas foetus cysteine protease CP30 induces cell death in host cells
• Immunological approaches to enhanced production in food animals
• Colostrum management in calves: effects of drenching versus bottle feeding
• Immune system activation increases the tryptophan requirement in post weaning pigs
• Periparturient negative energy balance and neutrophil function suppression are associated with uterine health disorders and fever in Holstein cows

Reproductive health

• Rearing conditions and disease influencing the reproductive performance of swedish dairy heifers
• Factors influencing conception rate after synchronization of ovulation and timed artificial insemination
• The incidence of endometritis and its effect on reproductive performance of dairy cows
• Use of Neospora caninum vaccine in a dairy herd undergoing an abortion outbreak
• Ovulatory cycles, metabolic profiles, body condition scores and their relation to fertility of multiparous Holstein dairy cows
• Field trial on blood metabolites, body condition score (BCS) and their relation to the recurrence of ovarian cyclicity in Estonian Holstein cows

Epidemiology of production diseases

• Epidemiology of subclinical production diseases in dairy cows with an emphasis on ketosis
• Associations of cow and management factors with culture positive milk samples
• Production diseases in farm animals
• A mathematical model for the dynamics of digital dermatitis in groups of cattle to study the efficacy of group-based therapy and prevention strategies
• Diagnostic test evaluation without gold standard using two different bayesian approaches for detecting verotoxinogenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) in cattle
• A relative comparison of diagnostic tests for bovine paratuberculosis (Johne’s disease)

Alternatives to growth promoting antibiotics

• Alternatives to antibiotic feed additives
• Continuous use of a dry disinfectant/antiseptic to enhance health and well being in food-animal production facilities
• Bovine colostrum as an alternative to feed additive in weaning diet improves gut health of piglets
• Production responses from antimicrobial and rendered animal protein inclusions in swine starter diets

Macromineral metabolism and production diseases

• Strategies for controlling hypocalcemia in dairy cows in confinement and pasture settings
• Phosphorus digestion and metabolism in ruminants: applications to production disease and environmental considerations
• Prevalence of subclinical hypocalcemia in U.S. dairy operations
• The effect of low phosphorus intake in early lactation on apparent digestibility of phosphorus and bone metabolism in dairy cows
• Bone metabolism of milk goat and sheep during pregnancy and lactation
• Influence of starvation on fermentation in bovine rumen fluid (in vivo)
• Serum mineral concentrations and periparturient disease in Holstein dairy cows
• The relevance of hypophosphataemia in cows

Micromineral nutrition, metabolism and homeostasis

• Trace element nutriture and immune function
• Expected changes of the selenium content in foods of animal origin at a change from inorganic to organic selenium compounds for supplementation of the diet of farm animals
• Long acting injectable remedies to prevent cobalt and selenium deficiencies in grazing lambs and calves
• Parenteral and oral selenium supplementation of weaned beef calves
• Production diseases in farm animals
• Selenium yeast prevents nutritional muscular degeneration (NMD) in nursing calves

Role of specific fatty acids in animal health, reproduction, and performance

• Using conjugated linoleic acids for healthier animal products and as a management tool
• Fatty acid composition of phospholipids and levels of alpha-tocopherol, total antioxidative capacity and malondialdehyde in liver and muscular tissue after dietary supplementation of various fats in cattle
• A field sample study investigating possible indicators of undernutrition in cattle

Mastitis

• Activation of immune cells in bovine mammary gland secretions by zymosan treated bovine serum
• The effect of milk yield at dry-off on the likelihood of intramammary infection at calving
• Mastitis therapy for persistent Escherichia coli on a large dairy
• Diagnostic key data for lactate dehydrogenase activity measurements in raw milk for the identification of subclinical mastitis in dairy cows
• Evaluation of leukocyte subset for occurrence of mastitis on dairy herd
• Antimicrobial treatment strategies for Streptococcal and Staphylococcal mastitis
• Subclinical mastitis in dairy cows in farms with organic and with integrated production: prevalence, risk factors and udder pathogens
• Evaluation of a novel on-farm test for antibiotic susceptibility determination in mastitis pathogens

Rumen digestion and metabolism

• Physically effective fiber and regulation of ruminal pH: more than just chewing
• High dietary cation difference induces a state of pseudohypoparathyroidism in dairy cows resulting in hypocalcemia and milk fever
• Effects of two different dry-off strategies on metabolism in dairy cows
• Ruminal pH, concentrations and post-feeding pattern of VFA and organic acids in cows experiencing subacute ruminal acidosis
• Characterization of the Na+/Mg2+ exchanger as a major Mg2+ transporter in isolated ovine ruminal epithelial cells
• High potassium diet, sodium and magnesium in ruminants: the story is not over
• Functional characterization of the time course of rumen epithelium adaptation to a high energy diet
• Characterization of an ovine vacuolar H+-ATPase as a new mechanism for the energization of ruminal transport processes
• The absorptive capacity of sheep omasum is modulated by the diet

Application of genomics to production diseases

• Microarray analysis of bovine neutrophils around parturition: implications for mammary gland and reproductive tract health
• Functional genomics analysis of bovine viral diarrhea virus-infected cells: unraveling an enigma
• Early postpartum ketosis in dairy cows and hepatic gene expression profiles using a bovine cDNA microarray
• Production diseases in farm animals
• Genetic improvement of dairy cattle health
• Parturition-induced gene expression signatures in bovine peripheral blood mononuclear cells

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