0 painful swelling of the breast or the udder (= the part of a cow that produces milk), usually because of an infection --
Mastitis is not a notifiable disease and there are no precise figures of its incidence.
Many of the sheep had not been milked, and showed clear signs of 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.
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.
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.
Multispecies mastitis model further validation of the model structure.
A number of possible controls against mastitis are considered using the multispecies model presented here.
No cases of mastitis without cutaneous lesions were observed.
