BACKGROUND Mastitis is a common benign disorder of the female breast. It is frequently associated with tenderness, swelling and nipple discharge. We are describing an extremely rare case of an idiopathic granulomatous mastitis in the male breast. Only 1 previous case was reported. CASE REPORT A 29-year-old male patient presented with a hard, painless lump in the right breast of 2 weeks durati...

BACKGROUND Mastitis is a major disease of dairy cattle. Given the recent emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus as a cause of bovine mastitis, new intramammary (IMA) treatments are urgently required. Lasalocid, a member of the polyether ionophore class of antimicrobial agents, has not been previously administered to cows by the IMA route and has favorable characteristics for d...

A model to calculate the economic losses of mastitis on an average Dutch dairy farm was developed and used as base for a tool for farmers and advisors to calculate farm-specific economic losses of mastitis. The economic losses of a clinical case in a default situation were calculated as euro210, varying from euro164 to euro235 depending on the month of lactation. The total economic losses of ma...

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...

Mastitis is an inflammation of the mammary gland initiated by pathogenic bacteria. In fact, mastitis second most important reason for culling cows from dairy herds, after infertility. this review we focus on various forms mastitis, including subclinical and clinical mastitis. We also stress importance dry-off period as time when bacteria might start their insult to gland. An part negative effec...

Transient E. coli intramammary infections (IMI) are usually associated with rapid onset of clinical signs including mammary gland swelling and abnormal milk with rapid clearance of bacteria from milk. Conversely, reports have described strains of E. coli showing very different clinical trends. Persistent E. coli IMI are associated with mild clinical symptoms that disappear shortly after the ons...

This work describes an outbreak of clinical mastitis affecting 13 of 58 lactating ewes due to Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus. S. equi subsp. zooepidemicus was isolated in pure culture from all milk samples. All the clinical isolates had identical biochemical profiles and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and also exhibited indistinguishable macrorestriction patterns by pulsed-field...

Abstract About 150 million families around the world are engaged in milk production. However, inflammation of mammary gland (mastitis) remains a major problem dairy ruminants that affects quality worldwide. The aim this study was examination udder health with detection contagious and environmental pathogens causing mastitis 960 940 cows ewes, respectively. presence selected virulence factors su...

Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a breast (BC) consisting of malignant cells the ductal lumen without invasion beyond epithelial membrane. The article presents rare clinical case combined course chronic mastitis and 47-year-old female patient who was diagnosed with during instrumental examination, only after trepan biopsy subsequent histological intraductal cancer verified. This may indicate ...

We report here the draft genome of Staphylococcus aureus causing clinical mastitis in a cow from India. It is a major causative agent of mastitis and, further, livestock-associated strains are emerging as a potential threat to public health, thereby warranting studies to understand the genome of this deadly pathogen.