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Anwar Hassan, Ulrich Guth, Gerd Bernhardt
Procedures to Mastitis Diagnosis with Alternating Current Methods
Keywords: somatic cell count, impedimetric properties of milk, alternating current (AC) methods, measuring cell, statistical methods
The cell number is an important health and quality criterion of the milk. Therefore, many efforts are devoted to determine somatic cells in the foremilk. Since only few investigations in the literature report alternating current (AC) methods, the relationship between the number of the somatic cells and the impedimetric properties of the raw milk was investigated systematically in this work. For this purpose milk samples were examined in new probe with alternating current in a wide frequency range and with statistic methods relations were established between the complex electric quantities obtained as well as the complex resistance quantities and the contents of the milk like lactose and cell number. The measurements were compared with those obtained through the established standard procedure (Fossomatic), where the fluorescent cells are counted after colouring of their DNA.
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Print ISSN: 0171-8096
Volume: 72, 12/2005
Pages: 701 - 709