Editorial: Within- and between-host mathematical modeling of Mycobacterium avium aubspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) infections as a tool to study the dynamics of host-pathogen interactions in bovine paratuberculosis : Editorial

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Effects of clinical ketosis on test day milk yields in Finnish Ayrshire cattle

A linear model for repeated measurements was used to estimate the effects of clinical ketosis on 722,198 test day milk yields collected from September 1, 1985 to January 31, 1988 on 60,851 Finnish Ayrshire cows of parity 17 d after diagnosis, and milk collected on nonketotic cows. For each parity separately, the statistical model included fixed effects (ketosis, calving season, year and season of milk sampling, and stage of lactation) and random effects (herd and permanent and temporary environments) on test day milk yields. The pattern underlying correlations between temporary environmental effects was accommodated in the statistical model. Compared with those for nonketotic cows, lactation curves of cows with ketosis showed a depression in early lactation; estimated milk loss was 44.3 kg for 17 d after diagnosis. The 305-d milk yield of cows diagnosed with ketosis was estimated to be 141.1 kg higher than that of cows free of ketosis. Although milk losses occurred after ketosis, ketotic cows yielded more milk over the entire lactation than did nonketotic cows; and yields would have been even higher if cows had not had ketosis