TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME IN FULL-TERM NEWBORN CALVES

The respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) is a well-known trouble in premature infants and other newborn mammals. Prematurity has also been associated with RDS in calves but, in the veterinary literature, few RDS descriptions concern calves born at term. Now, hundreds of mature calves showing tachypnoea in the hours following birth are observed each year in th