Felipe Peña-Mosca

Sep 18, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Christopher Dean |Felipe Peña-Mosca |Tui Ray |Thomas J Wehri

AbstractThe primary objective of this study was to identify associations between teat apex microbiome and Staphylococcus aureus intramammary infection (IMI) risk in primiparous cows during the first 5 weeks after calving. We performed a case-control study using shotgun metagenomics of the teat apex and culture-based milk data collected longitudinally from 710 primiparous cows on 5 organic dairy farms. We observed a strong association between S.