Bacterial mastitis is a significant welfare and financial problem in sheep flocks. This paper
reviews the recently published literature, including publications that highlight the …

The objectives of health management of ewes during pregnancy are as follows:(i) successful
completion of pregnancy at term,(ii) birth of healthy and viable lambs, with optimal birth and …

This article presents an overview of the recent research into ovine and caprine mastitis. The
common clinical presentations of mastitis in these species are reviewed, as are the …

In a field investigation of ovine mastitis in eight flocks in Southern Greece, a population of
760 dairy ewes was monitored during lactation. The prevalence of subclinical mastitis was …

Dairy sheep, ie, milking ewes, are the ultimate antithesis to the expected. Sheep are
supposed to grow wool and produce mutton, meat, and lambs, not milk, at least not fluid milk …

Staphylococci have been isolated from various sites of the body of healthy sheep, as well as
from many infections of those animals, the main one being mastitis. The objective of this …

Objectives of this paper are to review (i) diagnostic methods and procedures available for
clinical or subclinical mastitis in ewes and (ii) applications of these procedures in the …

Background Clinical mastitis is an important disease in sheep. The objective of this work
was to identify causal bacteria and study certain epidemiological and clinical features of …

The objectives of this work were (1) to investigate prevalence of subclinical mastitis,(2) to
identify etiological agents involved, and (3) to study factors potentially predisposing ewes to …

The prevalence of bacterial isolation and the somatic cell count (SCC) of the milk from goats
(n= 110 from six herds) and sheep (n= 153 from three herds) was determined at parturition …