Using a Herd Profile to Determine Age-Specific Prevalence of Bovine Leukemia Virus in Michigan Dairy Herds

Enzootic bovine leukosis is a contagious disease of cattle caused by the retrovirus, bovine leukemia virus (BLV) and is the most common cause of malignant neoplasm in cattle. In order to facilitate surveillance of this disease in dairy herds, we developed a method to combine ELISA of milk collected...

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Main Authors: Ronald J. Erskine, Paul C. Bartlett, Todd M. Byrem, Chelsea L. Render, Catherine Febvay, Jessica T. Houseman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2012-01-01
Series:Veterinary Medicine International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/350374
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