Immune challenges are inevitable for livestock that are exposed to a varied range of adverse conditions ranging from environmental to pathogenic stresses. The β-defensins are antimicrobial peptides, belonging to "defensin" family and therefore acts as the first line of defense against the major infections occurring in dairy cattle including intramammary infections. The better resistance to mast...

The treatment of mastitis is based mainly on the use antibiotics. However, in recent times, an increase resistance phenomena and presence residues milk their derivatives has been reported. Few studies have focused by homeopathy elsewhere or Algeria. objective this current study aimed to clarify particular interest mastitis. was carried out two dairy farms a total 14 cows located Laghouat region...

Title of Document: PROTEOMIC PROFILING AND LABELFREE QUANTIFICATION OF BOVINE MILK PROTEINS DURING EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED ESCHERICHIA COLI MASTITIS Jamie Layne Boehmer, PhD., 2009 Directed By: Professor Robert R. Peters Department of Animal and Avian Sciences & Dr. Douglas Bannerman United States Department of Agriculture & Dr. Jeffrey Ward United States Food and Drug Administration Coliform ma...

A study was conducted to assess the incidence and economics of subclinical form of bovine mastitis in Central Region of India. Daily milk records of 187 animals during three seasons were collected and subjected to analysis. The economic loss due to reduction in yield, clinical expenses, and additional resources used were quantified and aggregated. The losses due to mastitis in monetary terms we...

Mastitis is inflammation of mammary gland characterized by infiltration of leukocytes in udder tissue in response to various bacterial invasions. Staphylococcus aureus is the etiological agent more commonly associated to the disease and is normally related to both subclinical and chronic infections leading to severe economic loss to dairy farms. TLR4 is involved in the initiation of the immune ...

Staphylococcus aureus is an economically important and a major mastitis-causing pathogen that also poses food safety and antimicrobial resistance threats. Substances in mastitic milk inhibit the Taq DNA polymerase reaction (Taq PCR) making it of limited use for detecting S. aureus mastitis. In the study reported here, a set of oligonucleotide primers of 21 and 24 bases was used in Taq-PCR to am...

Protein A, encoded by the spa gene, is one of the major immune evading MSCRAMM of S. aureus, demonstrated to be prevalent in a significant percentage of clinical bovine mastitis isolates in Australia. Given its' reported significance in biofilm formation and the superior performance of S. aureus biofilm versus planktonic vaccine in the mouse mastitis model, it was of interest to determine the i...

In addition to the well characterized function of chemokines in mediating the homing and accumulation of leukocytes to tissues, some chemokines also exhibit potent antimicrobial activity. Little is known of the potential role of chemokines in bovine mammary gland health and disease. The chemokine CCL28 has previously been shown to play a key role in the homing and accumulation of IgA antibody s...

Materials and Methods Mastitis is the inflammation of mammary gland; it is a complex disease which continues to have a major economic impact on the dairy industry throughout the world [1, 2]. The losses due to mastitis in USAalone are 1.7 billion dollars [3] while in India the losses are estimated to be about Rs. 7,165 crores [4]. The term mastitis comprises two relatively independent health pr...