financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31272420);the Earmarked Fund for Modern Agro-industry Technology Research System(CARS-37);the Fund for Basic Research from the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China(2011JS006);the National Key Technologies R&D Program(2011BAD28B02);the Program for Changjiang Scholar and Innovation Research Team in University(IRT1191)
Background: Bovine mastitis is the most common and costly disease of lactating cattle worldwide. Apart from milk somatic cell count(SCC) and somatic cell score(SCS), serum cytokines such as interleukin-17(IL-17...