AHDB Dairy Mastitis Control Plan

Mastitis in Dairy Goats

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Extended Therapy for Mastitis Control in Dairy Cows

Introduction: Extended therapy applied to mastitis treatment consists in treating cows for a longer period than labeled. The typical treatment of 1 to 3 days depending on the product is extended up to 8 consecutive days. Those treatments are mainly used to treat chronic subclinical mastitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) or Streptococcus uberis (Str. uberis) but they can also be us...

F-MC-5: Staphylococcus aureus Mastitis Control in Dairy Herds

Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most common causes of mastitis in US dairy herds. It is a major source of expense and lost revenues on many dairies. Therefore, the mastitis control program on every dairy must include measures designed to limit the degree and spread of Staph aureus infections. As herds grow larger, it becomes even more critical that these control programs are designed carefu...

Mastitis of dairy small ruminants.

Staphylococci are the main aetiological agents of small ruminants intramammary infections (IMI), the more frequent isolates being S. aureus in clinical cases and coagulase negative species in subclinical IMI. The clinical IMI, whose annual incidence is usually lower than 5%, mainly occur at the beginning of machine milking and during the first third of lactation. These features constitute small...

Prototheca Mastitis in Dairy Cows