Dairy Cattle Technical Articles
Article published the January 22, 2021:
Article published the January 8, 2021:
Introduction
As any other Latin American country, bovine brucellosis is a significant animal health problem and a relevant zoonosis in Costa Rica (CR). Consequently, the disease is of veterinary and of public ...
Article published the January 7, 2021:
Mycotoxins are naturally occurring compounds produced by fungi growing on plants in the field or during storage. Even though toxigenic molds may grow under a given set of environmental conditions, they do...
Article published the December 28, 2020:
The average level of total B-trichothecenes (1534 μg/kg) was the highest detected in the past five years and according to our risk assessment presents a medium risk to sensitive animals. Levels of ZEA, BZE...
Article published the December 21, 2020:
Article published the December 21, 2020:
Introduction
The rise in milk production has been accompanied by increasing incidence of health problems, declining ability to reproduce and declining the fertility of modern dairy cows. The transition from la...
Article published the December 15, 2020:
Corn from the two 2020 harvests was found to have low to medium levels of five mycotoxins: AFB1, FB1, ZEA, DON and NIV (multiple mycotoxin contamination). The possible synergism, or additive effect of mycotox...
Article published the October 30, 2020:
Introduction
The dominant primary plant formation in the Cacaueira is a dense ombrophilous forest, known like Atlantic rainforest or simply Atlantic forest. This biome is found along of the Brazilian coast, co...
Article published the October 26, 2020:
What should we do if we have implemented all 3 of the 4 steps of the Mycotoxin Management Program – Forecast Crop Contamination, Secure Storage and Screen finished feed – and still find a multiple m...
Article published the October 26, 2020:
INTRODUCTION
Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) has been classified within the genus Pestivirus of the family Flaviviridae (Wengler et al., 1995). It has a positive single-stranded RNA genome of approximately ...