0 painful swelling of the breast or the udder (= the part of a cow that produces milk), usually because of an infection
Well known mastitis control measures, in combination with knowledge of infection status and regular and frequent attention for mastitis control, were sufficient to attain this.
Subclinical infections may hamper the control of mastitis because they often go unnoticed and untreated, resulting in long duration of the infection.
Taking the team approach to solving staphylococcal mastitis infection.
For clinical infections that started during lactation, the recorded date of clinical mastitis was used as the starting date for the clinical infection.
The clinical diagnosis of mastitis at any stage of pregnancy should prompt investigations to exclude inflammatory breast cancer or recurrence.
Therefore, it was not possible to calculate mastitis-related culling rates directly from the data.
To a farmer, the lenient definition of elimination will be of little meaning when new cases of mastitis may continue to occur.
No cases of mastitis without cutaneous lesions were observed.
