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HOMEWORK

1.Utah State University has a pdf file of a powerpoint presentation that reviews bovine                            metabolic diseases here.

2.Purdue University has a review of hepatic lipidosis in cattle.

3.University of Florida has a review of ketosis.

4.One veterinary clinic's approach to treatment of milk fever can be found at this website.

5.For information on bovine ketosis and the Ross test (Rothera test) check   this. 

6.       What does a cow's chomosomes have to do with ketosis?    Ohio State has information                         about the risk of ketosis with several dairy cow diseases.

7.       Still more information on ketosis can be found here.

8.Here is a link to feeding and managing the transition dairy cow.

9.       For information on downer cows check this out.

10.     At the University of Wisconsin what devices are used in the supportive care of downer cows?

11.     For more information about downer cows you can check this reference.

12.     Here is an excellent reference on transition cow metabolic problems.

13.     Here is the link to vaca resources, Dr. Donald Sanders from Urbana, Ohio.

14.     What naturally occurring antibacterial is being tested for use as a therapy for bovine mastitis ?

15.     What is the estimated number of sub-clinical cases of mastitis in a herd for every detected                   clinical  case? 

16.     This website gives an overview of the basics of milking machine function.   

17.     Questions about mastitis vaccination can be answered here.

18.     What is the purported advantage of robotic milking systems? 

19.     For lots of information about mastitis you can check these links.  Which pathogen is linked to              udder suicide?  Check this link and go to page 5 for the answer. 

20.     Under udder health products, check out Labo Solidago.

21.     For a review of Streptococcus agalactiae mastitis check out this page from AABP.

22.     Here is a link to information from McGill University in Quebec about

         treating mastitis without antibiotics.

23.     Here is a link to control of coliform mastitis from Utah.

24.     Go here for more information about udder singeing.

25.    For more information on Leptospirosis, here is a PDF file.

26.    Here is a link to a PDF file on bovine spongiform encepalopathy.  There are some                pictures and on page 9 there is a list of differential diagnoses.

27.    Here is a link to a page at Tuskegee with a summary on listeriosis in cattle.

28.    Here is some more information on nervous coccidiosis.

29.    Here is a link to the Center for Food Security and Public Health at Iowa State                       University.  Check out the animal disease menu.

30.    For more information on a number of cattle diseases, the Iowa Beef Center has a                  number of publications, including on on clostridial diseases.

31.    Here is a link to information with pictures about botulism in cattle.

Here are a couple of further references to pink eye.

32.    Here is a summary from Purdue.

33.    Here is some information from Kansas.

34.    Here is a quiz from the Great Plains Center.

35.    What breed of beef cattle has claimed genetic resistance to bovine pinkeye?

36.    Which breed of beef cattle is most susceptible to bovine pinkeye?