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Editorial
. 2024 May 15:13:e98828.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.98828.

Monitoring livestock pregnancy loss

Clara Akpan  1
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Editorial

Monitoring livestock pregnancy loss

Clara Akpan. Elife. .

Abstract

Systematically tracking and analysing reproductive loss in livestock helps with efforts to safeguard the health and productivity of food animals by identifying causes and high-risk areas.

Keywords: agriculture; disease surveillance; epidemiology; global health; infectious disease; infectious diseases; livestock reproduction; microbiology.

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Conflict of interest statement

CA No competing interests declared

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