Prevalence of Failure of Passive Transfer of Immunity in Dairy Calves in the Czech Republic

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Alternative codes found

RIV/62157124:16270/19:43878132 RIV/00027014:_____/19:N0000020

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201967010163" target="_blank" >10.11118/actaun201967010163</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Prevalence of Failure of Passive Transfer of Immunity in Dairy Calves in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Prevalence of failure of passive transfer (FPT) of immunity remains relatively high worldwide. The aim of this study was to estimate the FPT prevalence in Czech dairy calves and to evaluate the selected factors - breed, herd size, sex of calves, single versus twin births and the influence of the season of birth. A total of 1,175 serum samples were taken from calves of Czech Fleckvieh and Holstein breed from 33 herds between October 2015 and October 2017. Serum IgG concentration was determined by reference method for IgG determination – radial immunodiffusion. Statistical evaluation was performed by Kruskal-Wallis test. The concentration of IgG ranged from 1.5 to 46.6 g/L with average value 13.7 g/L and was significantly influenced by breed, size of the herd and season. Using the criterion IgG<10 g/L, it was found that 34.6% of calves had FPT. The prevalence of FPT by breed was 42.9% vs. 24.2% (Czech Fleckvieh vs. Holstein), by size of the herd 45.0, 44.4, 25.5 and 22.0% (<200, 200–399, 400–599 and ≥600 cows per herd, respectively) and by season 25.3, 34.6, 29.9 and 52.5% (spring, summer, autumn and winter, respectively). The sex of calves was not found to be a statistically significant factor. The study in newborn calves showed that FPT is still an important problem in Czech dairy herds, especially in the Czech Fleckvieh breed. In smaller herds and especially in the winter, the prevalence of FPT was very high.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40301 - Veterinary science

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis

ISSN

1211-8516

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

67

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

163-172

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85062571782