Prevalence of abortion and stillbirth in a beef cattle system in Southeastern MexicoJose C Segura-Correa
Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, UADY, Km 15 5 carretera Mérida Xmatkuil, A P 4 116, Itzimná, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
Trop Anim Health Prod 41:1773-8. 2009
..6 times that of old cows. Of the total births, 15 were twins (0.36%) of which 7 were born dead calves. Herd owners must focus on the significant risk factors under their control to reduce the prevalence of prenatal mortality...
- Seroconversion to bovine viral diarrhoea virus and infectious bovine rhinotracheitis virus in dairy herds of Michoacan, Mexico
Jose C Segura-Correa
Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, UADY, Km 15 5 carretera Mérida Xmatkuil, A P 4 116, Itzimná, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
Trop Anim Health Prod 42:233-8. 2010
..The scenario of IBRV is favourable to implement a programme directed to reduce the number of new seropositive herds...
- Intraherd correlation coefficients and design effects for bovine viral diarrhoea, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, leptospirosis and neosporosis in cow-calf system herds in North-eastern Mexico
J C Segura-Correa
Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Campus de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Km 15 5 carretera Mérida Xmatkuil, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
Prev Vet Med 96:272-5. 2010
..The report of ICC and D values is of great help in planning and designing two-stage sampling studies...
- Genetic parameters for birth weight, weaning weight and age at first calving in Brown Swiss cattle in Mexico
Jose C Segura-Correa
Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
Trop Anim Health Prod 44:337-41. 2012
..The genetic correlations between birth weight-WW and WW-AFC were 0.36 and -0.02, respectively. Under the conditions of this study, selection for increasing birth weight would increase WW, but increasing WW will not change AFC...
Risk factors for Aujeszky's disease in pig herds and detection of field virus antibodies in fattening pigs in the state of Yucatan, MexicoJorge C Rodríguez-Buenfil
Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Km 15 5 carretera Mérida Xmatkuil, Apdo Postal 4 116, Itzimná, C P 97000 Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
Prev Vet Med 53:205-13. 2002
..None of the piglets were positive to antibodies against field virus risk--suggesting that the strategy of vaccinating only the breeding animals reduced the ADV infection of the piglets...
- Frequency of removal reasons of sows in Southeastern Mexico
Jose C Segura-Correa
Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Km 15 5 carretera Mérida Xmatkuil, Apdo Postal 4 116 Itzimná, CP 97100 Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico
Trop Anim Health Prod 43:1583-8. 2011
..1% and the category "miscellaneous" 7.7% of all removals. Poor body condition and death reasons represented 2.6% and 1.6%, respectively. Differences between removal reasons were found between farms...
- Length of productive life of sows in four pig farms in the tropics of Mexico
Jose C Segura-Correa
Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Km 15 5 Carretera Mérida X matkuil, Apdo, Postal 4 116 Itzimná, 97100, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
Trop Anim Health Prod 43:1191-4. 2011
..Females that farrowed at a short age and those with large litters stayed longer in the herd. Old sows and those culled for reproductive reasons stayed the least time in the herd after their last farrowing...
- Effects of breed type and age at first calving on length of productive life in a cow-calf system in Southeastern Mexico
Ildefonso Aranda-Avila
Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Km 15 5 carretera Mérida Xmatkuil, AP 4 116, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
Trop Anim Health Prod 42:1737-41. 2010
..05) than crossbred cows. AFC influenced LPL (p=0.014) and KWC (p=0.012). Cows with AFC <3 years of age stayed longer in the herd and weaned more KWC than those with a higher AFC (p<0.05)...
- Prevalence of antibodies to Theileria equi and Babesia caballi in horses from northeastern Mexico
Marco A Cantú-Martínez
Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Francisco Villa Street, 66050 Escobedo, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
J Parasitol 98:869-70. 2012
..The overall seroprevalence was 61.7% and those for T. equi and B. caballi were 45.2% and 27.4%, respectively. Horse purpose, sex, and age group were not associated with infection with Theileria equi or Babesia caballi...
