Mastitis in Dairy Technical Articles
Article published the June 19, 2019:
Mastitis is a multifactorial and costliest disease of all milk producing ruminants. Lack of scientific health care and managemental practices has been repeatedly high lightened for cause of mastitis. Early dete...
Article published the July 26, 2018:
Mastitis poses the highest economic impact on dairy farms from all diseases. This is due to losses in unrealized milk production, treatment costs, increased risk of culling, and discarded milk production.
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Article published the June 18, 2018:
In today’s world safe and wholesome milk production is a challenge for the farmers with increasing incidences of different types of diseases and emergence of new and resistant pathogens due to indiscrimin...
Article published the May 23, 2018:
Introduction
Mastitis is a worldwide problem of dairy production characterized by physical and chemical changes in milk. The microbiological and pathological changes in the glandular tissue of the udder alter ...
Article published the October 5, 2017:
Introduction
The transition period, 3 weeks before to 3 weeks after parturition, is important for health, reproduction, production and profitability of dairy cows (Bertoni et al., 2008). In this period cows ar...
Article published the January 20, 2017:
Escherichia coli bacteria are a major cause of clinical coliform mastitis in dairy cattle. Uncontrolled bacterial replication caused by dysfunctional immune responses results in severe mammary tissue damage and...
Article published the January 17, 2017:
1. Introduction
Inflammation contributes to a variety of human and veterinary diseases, including mastitis. Bovine mastitis caused by Streptococcus uberis results in severe damage to milkproducing tissues as a...
Article published the December 7, 2016:
Introduction
In spite of considerable progress in improvement of milk quality, mastitis continues to be the most frequent and costly disease of dairy cows, however few veterinarians are actively involved in ma...
Article published the October 14, 2016:
Introduction
Control of mastitis caused by Streptococcus agalactiae and Staphylococcus aureus has resulted in reductions in bulk tank somatic cell count (SCC) but many herds continue to struggle with treatment...
Article published the August 8, 2016:
First of all – what is mastitis?
Mastitis is defined as an inflammation of the mammary gland. Pathogenic microorganisms enter the udder through the teat canal, overcome the cow´s immune system and ...