Mastitis control is based upon adoption of preventive control strategies including good milking hygiene, the use of properly functioning milking equipment, provision of clean and dry housing areas, sound nutritional programs and proper identification and treatment of cows that are infected with subclinical and clinical mastitis. Worldwide, many dairy farmers have adopted these procedures and pr...

BACKGROUND The reported incidence of lactational mastitis varies greatly; the single highest reported incidence in the scientific literature is 33%. The purpose of this study was to collect data regarding incidence and experiences of lactational mastitis from women attending a meeting of lactation specialists and to compare findings in a similar population reported in 1990 by Riordan and Nichol...

Fecal contamination of bedding has been associated with coliform mastitis caused by E. coli, while coliform mastitis caused by Klebsiella spp. is associated with wet sawdust and wood shavings.(1) Coliform mastitis has an average incidence rate of 15% to 20% in herds with low somatic cell counts (SCC) and is implicated in 30% to 40% of clinical cases. It is a common cause of fatal mastitis in ca...

The indiscriminate and injudicious administration of antibiotics and irrational treatment of bovine mastitis with different antibiotics have invited serious complications like multiple drug resistance. The present paper reports the microbiological examination and reporting of a clinical case of mastitis in cow and its recommended therapeutic management with the selected broad spectrum antibioti...

Mastitis is by far the most common and most costly disease in milk production in industrialised countries. Costs are related to loss in milk quality, decreased milk production related to subclinical mastitis, discarded milk, replacement cows, cost of treatment and labour costs [1]. This disease is the most frequent reason for the use of antimicrobials in dairy cows [2]. It can be classified int...

Lymphocytic mastitis is an uncommon condition associated with type I diabetes mellitus, which is known to be a T-cell mediated autoimmune disease. Hence, it is thought that lymphocytic mastitis is linked with autoimmune disorders. This report is of a patient with type II diabetes mellitus and rheumatoid arthritis who developed lymphocytic mastitis. Since rheumatoid arthritis is a T-cell mediate...

Sire genetic evaluations for protein yield, somatic cell score (SCS), productive life, and udder type traits from the US were correlated with sire evaluations for udder health from Denmark and Sweden and then the correlations were adjusted for accuracies to approximate genetic correlations. Traits from Denmark and Sweden included somatic cell count (SCC) and clinical mastitis from single-trait ...

BACKGROUND Several management and environmental factors are known as contributory causes of clinical mastitis in dairy herd. The study objectives were to describe the structure of herd-specific mastitis management and environmental factors and to assess the relevance of these herd-specific indicators to mastitis incidence rate. METHODS Disease reports from the Danish Cattle Data Base and a ma...

BACKGROUND Mastitis is one of the most common problems experienced by women who are breastfeeding. Mastitis is an inflammation of breast tissue, which may or may not result from infection. The aims of this paper are to compare rates of mastitis in primiparous women receiving public hospital care (standard or birth centre) and care in a co-located private hospital, and to use multivariate analys...

BACKGROUND Objectives of the study were to document the impact of some management factors on the occurrence of clinical mastitis in primiparous dairy cows and to identify common udder pathogens of clinical mastitis in freshly calved heifers and multiparous cows on the day of calving. METHODS A one-year study was conducted during 2004 and 2005 in 11 selected Estonian dairy herds. Data consiste...