Environmental mastitis is the most common and costly form of mastitis in modern dairy herds
where contagious transmission of intramammary pathogens is controlled through …

Various body sites of vertebrates provide stable and nutrient-rich ecosystems for a diverse
range of commensal, opportunistic, and pathogenic microorganisms to thrive. The collective …

Heifer mastitis is a disease that potentially threatens production and udder health in the first
and subsequent lactations. In general, coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) are the …

Treatment of clinical mastitis (CM) and use of antimicrobials for dry cow therapy are
responsible for the majority of animal-defined daily doses of antimicrobial use (AMU) on …

Mastitis remains a major challenge to the worldwide dairy industry despite the widespread
implementation of mastitis control strategies. The last forty years have seen a dramatic …

Knowledge of the incidence of clinical mastitis (CM) and the distribution of pathogens
involved is essential for development of prevention and control programs as well as …

Data were obtained from studies in Australia, Canada, and the United States using
individual cow data from 28,230 Holstein cows to evaluate associations between parity and …

In this article the use of somatic cell counts for monitoring udder health and milk quality is
discussed. Somatic cell count dynamics at quarter, cow, herd and population level are …

Staphylococcus aureus is an important cause of udder infections in dairy herds. Both
lactational and dry cow therapy are part of Staph. aureus control programs. Reported cure …

In recent years, the US dairy industry has experienced significant demographic changes,
with an increase in the number of large herds. The objectives of the present study were to …