Prevalence of and factors associated with swellings of the ribs in tie stall housed dairy cows in Germany

• Greta E. Abele ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Greta.Abele@web.de

  Affiliation Clinic for Ruminants with Ambulatory and Herd Health Services, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munich, Oberschleissheim, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0974-2046

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• Yury Zablotski,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Clinic for Ruminants with Ambulatory and Herd Health Services, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munich, Oberschleissheim, Germany

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• Melanie Feist,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic for Ruminants with Ambulatory and Herd Health Services, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munich, Oberschleissheim, Germany

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• K. Charlotte Jensen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic for Cattle, University of Veterinary Medicine, Foundation, Hannover, Germany

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• Annegret Stock,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Clinic for Ruminants and Swine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6998-5555

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• Amely Campe,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biometry, Epidemiology and Information Processing, WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training for Health at the Human-Animal-Environment Interface, University of Veterinary Medicine, Foundation, Hannover, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9390-759X

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• Roswitha Merle,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Veterinary Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Andreas W. Oehm

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic for Ruminants with Ambulatory and Herd Health Services, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munich, Oberschleissheim, Germany

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