Abstract

Puerperal metritis is a common disease in the first 3 weeks after calving in dairy cattle. Complicated par-turitions and retained placenta are factors facilitating contamination of the uterine lumen by environmental and opportunistic pathogens. Post-partum uterine in-fections are considered factors able to reduce animal welfare and fertility, causing economic losses and ear -ly animal elimination from the herd (Williams et al., 2007). The most common pathogens associated with metritis are

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