Diagnosing intramammary infections: Evaluating expert opinions on the definition of intramammary infection using conjoint analysis
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Diagnosing intramammary infections: evaluating expert opinions on the definition of intramammary infection using conjoint analysis.
The primary purpose of this study was to develop a set of criteria to serve as a pseudo-gold standard for what constitutes an intramammary infection using data from 3 consecutive quarter milk samples taken 1 wk apart. Data from lactating cows in 90 dairy herds in 4 Canadian provinces were used to generate the data sets (profiles) used in the conjoint analysis to elicit expert opinions on the to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Dairy Science
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0022-0302
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2009-2726