Area of research
Agronomy and Crop Science · Epidemiology
Research interest
Research interests include Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, and Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies.
Tumor necrosis factor-α production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells after in vitro Escherichia coli challenge in early- vs. mid-lactation dairy cows
Genetic diversity and molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus uberis in high-prevalence mastitis herds.
Characterization of Mannheimia haemolytica pleuropneumonia outbreaks in Dutch dairy cattle.
Cost-efficiency of mastitis control strategies on smallholder dairy farms.
Smallholder milk-quality awareness in Indonesian dairy farms.
Effects of pathogen-specific clinical mastitis occurrence in the first 100 days of lactation 1 on future mastitis occurrence in Holstein dairy cows: An observational study.
Pegbovigrastim treatment resulted in an economic benefit in a large randomized clinical trial in grazing dairy cows.
Association of pathogen-specific clinical mastitis in the first 100 days of first lactation with productive lifetime: An observational study comparing competing risks models for death and sale with the Cox model.
Effect of pegbovigrastim on fertility and culling in grazing dairy cows and its association with prepartum nonesterified fatty acids.
Predicting Positive ELISA Results in Dairy Herds with a Preferred Status in a Paratuberculosis Control Program.
Longitudinal study on the effects of intramammary infection with non-aureus staphylococci on udder health and milk production in dairy heifers.
Who infects whom?-Reconstructing infection chains of Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis in an endemically infected dairy herd by use of genomic data.
Evolutionary genomic and bacteria GWAS analysis of <i>Mycobacterium avium</i> subsp. <i>paratuberculosis</i> and dairy cattle Johne's disease phenotypes.
Effect of pegbovigrastim on clinical mastitis and uterine disease during a full lactation in grazing dairy cows.
Increase in white blood cell counts by pegbovigrastim in primiparous and multiparous grazing dairy cows and the interaction with prepartum body condition score and non-esterified fatty acids concentration.
Longitudinal study on the effects of intramammary infection with non-aureus staphylococci on udder health and milk production in dairy heifers
Molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus uberis intramammary infections: Persistent and transient patterns of infection in a dairy herd.
Incidence of milk leakage after dry-off in European dairy herds, related risk factors, and its role in new intramammary infections
Effect of bismuth subnitrate on in vitro growth of major mastitis pathogens.
Incidence of milk leakage after dry-off in European dairy herds, related risk factors, and its role in new intramammary infections.
Characterizing infectious disease progression through discrete states using hidden Markov models.
Cellular Response of Neutrophils to Bismuth Subnitrate and Micronized Keratin Products In Vitro.
Quantifying calf mortality on dairy farms: Challenges and solutions
Quantifying calf mortality on dairy farms: Challenges and solutions.
The detection of intramammary infections using online somatic cell counts.
Dynamics of somatic cell count patterns as a proxy for transmission of mastitis pathogens.
Elucidating Transmission Patterns of Endemic <i>Mycobacterium avium</i> subsp. <i>paratuberculosis</i> Using Molecular Epidemiology.
Efficacy of cabergoline in a double-blind randomized clinical trial on milk leakage reduction at drying-off and new intramammary infections across the dry period and postcalving.
Normal milk microbiome is reestablished following experimental infection with Escherichia coli independent of intramammary antibiotic treatment with a third-generation cephalosporin in bovines
Longitudinal metagenomic profiling of bovine milk to assess the impact of intramammary treatment using a third-generation cephalosporin