Rapid and accurate identification of mastitis pathogens is important for disease control. Bacterial culture and isolate identification is considered the gold-standard in mastitis diagnosis but is time-consuming and results in many culture-negative samples. Identification of mastitis pathogens by PCR has been proposed as a fast and sensitive alternative to bacterial culture. The results of bacte...

The aim of the study was to determine the concentration of serum amyloid A (SAA) and the activity of ceruloplasmin (Cp) in milk from cows with clinical mastitis of various severities and with subclinical mastitis in aspect of their usefulness for the detection of mastitis in cows. The concentration of SAA was determined using the commercial ELISA kit. The activity of Cp was determined according...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Mastitis is a serious disease of dairy animals causing great economic losses due to a reduction in milk yield as well as lowering its nutritive value. The application of somatic cell count (SCC) and alkaline phosphatase activity in the milk for diagnosis of mastitis in buffalo is not well documented. Therefore, the present study was conducted to observe the SCC and alkaline p...

BACKGROUND Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis is an uncommon, benign entity with a diagnosis of exclusion. The typical clinical presentation of idiopathic granulomatous mastitis often mimics infection or malignancy. As a result, histopathological confirmation of idiopathic granulomatous mastitis combined with exclusion of infection, malignancy and other causes of granulomatous disease is absolut...

Mastitis is the most common infectious disease among dairy cattle and has been singled out as the most significant cause of economical loss in the dairy industry. Control of mastitis is important because milk may harbor organisms potentially pathogenic to humans [1]. Staphylococci are the bacteria most commonly isolated from subclinical mastitis [2]. However, during recent years, coagulase-nega...

Mastitis and antimicrobial resistance are a big challenge to the dairy industry in sub-Saharan Africa. A study was conducted in Kashongi and Keshunga subcounties of Kiruhura District (in Uganda) where the government and private sector have deliberate programs to improve production efficiency, quality, and safety of milk and its products. The study aimed to determine the prevalence of mastitis, ...

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 Nicho...

Gunay A., U. Gunay: Effects of Clinical Mastitis on Reproductive Performance in Holstein Cows. Acta Vet. Brno 2008, 77: 555-560. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of clinical mastitis on reproductive performance in 135 early lactation cows. The animals were divided into two groups according to the occurrence of mastitis as follows: group I (n = 45), clinical mastitis prio...

To analyze the effects of some environmental factors such as herd, year, season of calving, stage of lactation on mastitis incidence, a total of 101147 monthly test day somatic cell counts collected from 13977 Iranian Holstein heifers calved between 2002 and 2006 in 183 herds were used. The event of mastitis in cows was coded as 1 if their somatic cell count at specific test day was greater tha...

The objective of this study was to determine the relationships among daughter clinical mastitis during first and second lactations and sire transmitting abilities for somatic cell score, udder type traits, productive life, and protein yield. Data on clinical mastitis during first lactation were available for 1795 daughters (in six Pennsylvania herds, one Minnesota herd, and one Nebraska herd) o...