Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2009
By:
Charles Guard, DVM, PhD
Knowing the cost of common diseases can help dairy farmers and their veterinarians plan treatment and prevention strategies that are likely to improve the profitability of the dairy.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2009
By:
Dusty W. Nagy, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Antibiotic selection is generally based on a range factors including tentative diagnosis, culture and sensitivity data, pharmacokinetic constraints, economics, and legality.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2009
By:
John Maas, DVM, DACVN, DACVIM
Anaplasmosis is a noncontagious, infectious, transmissible hemoparasitic disease of cattle.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2009
By:
Charles Guard, DVM, PhD
Foot rot is caused by specific pathogenic strains of Fusobacterium necrophorum and Bacteriodes melaninogenicus that gain entry through the interdigital skin.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2009
By:
Charles Guard, DVM, PhD
The general principles of therapy for digital diseases are to eliminate the pain first and foremost and then to correct the underlying problem if possible.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2009
By:
John Maas, DVM, DACVN, DACVIM
Copper deficiency occurs when the diet contains an abnormally low amount of copper (primary copper deficiency) or when copper absorption or metabolism is adversely affected (secondary copper deficiency).
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2009
By:
W. Mark Hilton, DVM, DABVP
The 2008 National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) data indicates 77% of bull calves in the U.S. are castrated before marketing and 75% of those are castrated before three months of age.
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Source: CVC IN KANSAS CITY PROCEEDINGS
August 1, 2009
By:
Dusty W. Nagy, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
You are presented with a 9 day old Holstein-Friesian heifer calf with a chief complaint of diarrhea of four days duration.
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