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Incidence of mastitis in various bovine breedings in tiaret area (Algeria) [electronic resource].

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Ghazi, K

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Niar, A

Language: English Summary language: Arabic Description: p.198-206Other title:

حدوث إلتهاب الضرع لمختلف الأبقار للتربية فى ولاية تيارت بالجزائر [Added title page title]

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Assiut veterinary medical journal, 2006 v. 52 (109) [electronic resource].

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In: Assiut Veterinary Medical Journal 2006.v.52(109)Summary: Mastitis is considered among principal pathologies which strike dairy livestock and the bovines in particular; considering their economic and medical importance, it is significantly considered to highlight the parameters which playa role in the appearance of this pathology. Our study related to a sample of 500 milking cows, and during a whole year. These cows differed from age and breed point of view, but they lived under the same defective conditions of breeding from the habitat, hygiene and food point of view. The results of the study revealed that, cows were infected for the period of stalling (winter and autumn), with a percentage of 26% and 22, 6% respectively, whereas for the period of the meadows (spring and summer) the infection was less frequent (15% and 17, 8%). Imported bovine milking breeds, showed a larger sensitivity towards mastitis i.e. Cross breeds: 15%; Pie noire race: 46, 6% and pie rouge race: 10, 4%. However, local breeds were more resistant compared to the others, with a rate of mastitis of only 9, 4%. Age did not have a direct influence on incidence of mastitis. Cows couid be prone to the infection at any moment of their life, being given rigorous conditions of t.'le Algerian breeding.

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Mastitis is considered among principal pathologies which strike dairy livestock and the bovines in particular; considering their economic and medical importance, it is significantly considered to highlight the parameters which playa role in the appearance of this pathology. Our study related to a sample of 500 milking cows, and during a whole year. These cows differed from age and breed point of view, but they lived under the same defective conditions of breeding from the habitat, hygiene and food point of view. The results of the study revealed that, cows were infected for the period of stalling (winter and autumn), with a percentage of 26% and 22, 6% respectively, whereas for the period of the meadows (spring and summer) the infection was less frequent (15% and 17, 8%). Imported bovine milking breeds, showed a larger sensitivity towards mastitis i.e. Cross breeds: 15%; Pie noire race: 46, 6% and pie rouge race: 10, 4%. However, local breeds were more resistant compared to the others, with a rate of mastitis of only 9, 4%. Age did not have a direct influence on incidence of mastitis. Cows couid be prone to the infection at any moment of their life, being given rigorous conditions of t.'le Algerian breeding.

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