Manon Kochan's research while affiliated with University of Zurich and other places

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Background Nursing and sucking are essential for adequate nourishment of preweaned calves and the relationship between sucking indices has not been studied. The goal of this study was to investigate the number of sucks per litre of milk and per minute of drinking and the amount of milk ingested per suck in healthy preweaned calves. Correlation coef...
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English Repeated drenching of calves – ­Ultra­sonographic findings of the ­reticulum and abomasum and ­short-term ­effects on pH and ­D-lactate in rumen fluid and blood An oesophageal tube feeder was used to administer milk to six clinically healthy calves every 12 hours for a total of three feedings. The calves were seven to nine days of age, and...
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Introduction: An oesophageal tube feeder was used to administer milk to six clinically healthy calves every 12 hours for a total of three feedings. The calves were seven to nine days of age, and each feeding consisted of a volume of milk that was 6 % of the body weight of the calves. The reticulum and abomasum were scanned ultrasonographically bef...
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Background In cattle, the prognosis of brain abscess is unfavourable and treatment is therefore not recommended. To the knowledge of the authors, there has been no report of successful treatment of a brain abscess in cattle.This report describes the clinical, computed tomographic and postmortem findings in a Holstein–Friesian bull with a hypophysea...
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In der vorliegenden Dissertation wurde untersucht, in welche Mägen die Milch gelangt, wenn Kälber mit unterschiedlichen Milchmengen getränkt werden (12 und 16 % des Körpergewichts sowie ad libitum). Im ersten Versuch wurden je 6 Holstein-Kälber (Gruppen A, B, C) mit den ge-nannten Milchmengen getränkt. Die Milch wurde mit einem Plastikeimer mit Sau...

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... The calves were not given concentrated feed until the end of the experiment. Details are described in a dissertation [20]. ...
... In sheep and goats, E. coli, Pasteurella sp., Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis, Streptococcus sp., and Trueperella pyogenes have already been cultured from clinical cases (Mayhew 2009). Pituitary abscess syndrome (PAS), or basilar empyema, is a neurological disease characterized by the formation of abscesses in the vascular complex over the basosphenoid bone (Fernandes et al. 2000, Braun et al. 2017a. PAS was diagnosed in two calves (Cases 28 and 29) aged 8 and 11 months, associated with the use of a controlled suckling device and hematogenous dissemination from bronchopneumonia (Câmara et al. 2009). ...