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| Witter,Rute; Melo,Andréia Lima Tomé; Pacheco,Thábata dos Anjos; Meneguzzi,Mirella; Boas,Ricardo Vilas; Dutra,Valéria; Nakazato,Luciano; Chitarra,Cristiane Silva; Oliveira,Anderson Castro Soares de; Pacheco,Richard Campos. |
| ABSTRACT: The municipality of Ji-Paraná, Rondônia, is one of the major dairy production areas in the north region of Brazil. Thus, it is important to evaluate infectious agents that have the potential to negatively affect productivity in the industry. The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of ' Candidatus Mycoplasma haemobos' by using a PCR-based detection method and correlate this with dairy herd variables (abortion frequency, weak calf birth rate, total cattle number, >24-month-old cow number, farm size, and production system) in family farms of the Ji-Paraná municipality, north region, Brazil. Blood samples were collected from 320 dairy cows located across 64 farms (i.e., five animals per farm) from September 2012 to November... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Hemoplasmas; Hemotropic mycoplasmas; Dairy herd. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782017000300451 |
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