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Congenital cataracts in an Ayrshire herd: a herd case report

Overview of attention for article published in Irish Veterinary Journal, January 2014
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Title
Congenital cataracts in an Ayrshire herd: a herd case report
Published in
Irish Veterinary Journal, January 2014
DOI 10.1186/2046-0481-67-2
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Lea Krump, Luke O’Grady, Ingrid Lorenz, Terence Grimes

Abstract

An Ayrshire dairy herd was investigated for occurrence of ocular abnormalities in new-born calves. Ophthalmic examinations were performed on all the animals in the herd and 26% of them were diagnosed with bilateral cataracts. Cataracts varied in extent and severity but the majority were restricted to the lens nucleus. Epidemiological analysis showed the prevalence was higher in male animals and lower in animals born to heifers. A family tree was designed but no genetic impact of dam lines was evident. Sire data was incomplete and could therefore not be included. Based on the information provided by the farmer there was no obvious environmental or nutritional cause of these cataracts. However, data records were incomplete and further investigation/monitoring of the herd would be needed to establish a cause and enable a better insight into the aetiology of this disease in cattle.

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Unknown 21 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 24%
Student > Bachelor 4 19%
Other 3 14%
Student > Master 3 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 10%
Other 3 14%
Unknown 1 5%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 10 48%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 5%
Other 2 10%
Unknown 2 10%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 November 2014.
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#15,091,226
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Irish Veterinary Journal
#110
of 257 outputs
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#175,438
of 321,549 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Irish Veterinary Journal
#2
of 3 outputs
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