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Ilka Christine Klaas

Ilka Christine Klaas

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
23
Citations
1786
World Ranking
3080
National Ranking
50

Overview

Ilka Christine Klaas is a researcher affiliated with DeLaval in Sweden. Their research focuses primarily on topics related to milk quality and mastitis in dairy cows, animal behavior and welfare studies, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, effects of environmental stressors on livestock, probiotics and fermented foods, food supply chain traceability, and animal genetics and reproduction.

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Novel ways to use sensor data to improve mastitis management, 2021, Journal of Dairy Science
  • The costs of chronic mastitis: A simulation study of an automatic milking system farm, 2022, Preventive Veterinary Medicine
  • Forecasting chronic mastitis using automatic milking system sensor data and gradient-boosting classifiers, 2022, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
  • Estimating the nonlinear association of online somatic cell count, lactate dehydrogenase, and electrical conductivity with milk yield, 2022, Journal of Dairy Science
  • Progression of different udder inflammation indicators and their episode length after onset of inflammation using automatic milking system sensor data, 2020, Journal of Dairy Science

Research has been published in various venues, with a frequent presence in:

  • Journal of Dairy Science
  • Preventive Veterinary Medicine
  • Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
  • Livestock Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Ilka Christine Klaas collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • H. Hogeveen
  • Ulf Emanuelson
  • John Bonestroo
  • Nils Fall
  • Mariska van der Voort

Their main fields of study include Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these fields, their subfields of study expand across agronomy and crop science, genetics, small animals, food science, and animal science and zoology.

Best Publications

  • Development and daily management of an explicit strategy of nonuse of antimicrobial drugs in twelve Danish organic dairy herds.

    M. Vaarst;T.W. Bennedsgaard;I. Klaas;T.B. Nissen

  • Danish Stable Schools for Experiential Common Learning in Groups of Organic Dairy Farmers

    M. Vaarst;T.B. Nissen;S. Østergaard;I.C. Klaas

  • A Stochastic Model Simulating Pathogen-Specific Mastitis Control in a Dairy Herd

    S. Østergaard;M.G.G. Chagunda;N.C. Friggens;T.W. Bennedsgaard

  • Reducing use of antimicrobials — Experiences from an intervention study in organic dairy herds in Denmark

    Torben Werner Bennedsgaard;I.C. Klaas;M. Vaarst

  • Bovine mastitis bacteria resolved by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry.

    Bettina Nonnemann;Ulrike Lyhs;Line Svennesen;Katja Ann Kristensen

  • Systematic Clinical Examinations for Identification of Latent Udder Health Types in Danish Dairy Herds

    I.C. Klaas;C. Enevoldsen;M. Vaarst;H. Houe

  • Cow-Related Risk Factors for Milk Leakage

    I.C. Klaas;C. Enevoldsen;A.K. Ersbøll;U. Tölle

  • Communications of Staphylococcus aureus and non-aureus Staphylococcus species from bovine intramammary infections and teat apex colonization.

    Yasser S. Mahmmod;Yasser S. Mahmmod;Ilka Christine Klaas;Line Svennesen;Karl Pedersen

  • The distribution of clones of Streptococcus agalactiae (group B streptococci) among herdspersons and dairy cows demonstrates lack of host specificity for some lineages.

    Uffe B. Skov Sørensen;Ilka C. Klaas;Jaap Boes;Michael Farre

  • Genomic investigation of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from bulk tank milk and dairy cows with clinical mastitis

    Troels Ronco;Ilka C. Klaas;Marc Stegger;Line Svennesen

  • Is Lameness a Welfare Problem in Dairy Farms with Automatic Milking Systems?

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  • Typeability of MALDI-TOF assay for identification of non-aureus staphylococci associated with bovine intramammary infections and teat apex colonization.

    Yasser S Mahmmod;Yasser S Mahmmod;Bettina Nonnemann;Line Svennesen;Karl Pedersen

  • Lameness detection challenges in automated milking systems addressed with partial least squares discriminant analysis.

    E. Garcia;I. Klaas;J.M. Amigo;R. Bro

  • Bayesian estimation of test characteristics of real-time PCR, bacteriological culture and California mastitis test for diagnosis of intramammary infections with Staphylococcus aureus in dairy cattle at routine milk recordings

    Yasser Mahmmod;Nils Toft;Jørgen Katholm;Carsten Grønbæk

  • The association between fetching for milking and dairy cows' behaviour at milking, and avoidance of human approach — An on-farm study in herds with automatic milking systems

    Tine Rousing;Jens Henrik Badsberg;Ilka Christine Klaas;Jens Hindhede

  • Association between teat skin colonization and intramammary infection with Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus agalactiae in herds with automatic milking systems

    Line Svennesen;Søren S Nielsen;Yasser S Mahmmod;Volker Krömker

  • Novel ways to use sensor data to improve mastitis management.

    Henk Hogeveen;Ilka C. Klaas;Gunnar Dalen;Hen Honig

  • Estimation of test characteristics of real-time PCR and bacterial culture for diagnosis of subclinical intramammary infections with Streptococcus agalactiae in Danish dairy cattle in 2012 using latent class analysis.

    Yasser S. Mahmmod;Nils Toft;Jørgen Katholm;Carsten Grønbæk

  • Molecular epidemiology and strain-specific characteristics of Streptococcus agalactiae at the herd and cow level.

    Y.S. Mahmmod;Y.S. Mahmmod;I.C. Klaas;J. Katholm;M. Lutton

  • Clinical and haematological study on water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) and crossbred cattle naturally infected with Theileria annulata in Sharkia province, Egypt

    Yasser S. Mahmmod;Farouk A. Elbalkemy;Ilka C. Klaas;Mamdouh F. Elmekkawy

  • Latent class analysis of the diagnostic characteristics of PCR and conventional bacteriological culture in diagnosing intramammary infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus in dairy cows at dry off

    Sara Ellinor Cederlöf;Nils Toft;Bent Aalbaek;Ilka Christine Klaas

  • An evaluation of the ability of Dichelobacter nodosus to survive in soil

    Sara Ellinor Cederlöf;Tomas Hansen;Ilka Christine Klaas;Øystein Angen

  • Changes in thermal nociceptive responses in dairy cows following experimentally induced Escherichia coli mastitis.

    Ditte B Rasmussen;Katrine Fogsgaard;Christine M Røntved;Ilka C Klaas

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl Pedersen
Karl Pedersen Aarhus University
Mette Vaarst
Mette Vaarst Aarhus University
Søren Saxmose Nielsen
Søren Saxmose Nielsen University of Copenhagen
Carsten Enevoldsen
Carsten Enevoldsen University of Copenhagen
Ulf Emanuelson
Ulf Emanuelson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Nils Toft
Nils Toft University of Copenhagen
Henk Hogeveen
Henk Hogeveen Wageningen University & Research
Jan Tind Sørensen
Jan Tind Sørensen Aarhus University
Ruth N. Zadoks
Ruth N. Zadoks University of Sydney
Hanne Ingmer
Hanne Ingmer University of Copenhagen

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