... health sta-tus [1]. We are in the fortunate position of having a dataset of SCC in dairy sheep for which bacteriologicaldata are also available, indicating whether an animal wasinfected at the ... Chaffer M, Caraso Y, Ezra E, Kababea D, Winkler M, Glickman A, Saran A: Udder infection and milk somatic cell count, NAGase activityand milk composition–fat, protein and lactose in Israeli-Assaf ... between bacteria negative SCS and infection status, as it was estimated using a Bayesian approach***No attempt was made to estimate a phenotypic correlation between bacteria negative SCS and infection...