Exempel på mastitis

• 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.

• A number of possible controls against mastitis are considered using the multispecies model presented here.

• Multispecies mastitis model further validation of the model structure.

• This should not be interpreted as delayed cure as a result of treatment, but rather as infrequent occurrence of treatment of subclinical mastitis or low cure proportions in treated cases.

• Additional quarter milk samples (approximately 5 ml) were collected by farmers at calving (prior to first contact with the milking machine), dry-off, culling and in the case of clinical mastitis.

• In the case of mastitis in dairy herds, vaccination is only one option, and treatment, culling, teat disinfection and possibly inoculation with benign strains are other options to consider.

• Many of the sheep had not been milked, and showed clear signs of mastitis.

• Mastitis is not a notifiable disease and there are no precise figures of its incidence.