contagious agalactia (c.a) is an infectious syndrome of sheep that is characterized by mastitis and subsequent failure of milk production, arthritis, abortion and keratoconjunctivitis. mycoplasma agalactiae (m. agalactiae) is the main cause of the disease in sheep. the aim of this study was isolation and identification of m. agalactiae with culture and polymerase chain reaction (pcr) assay f...

Electrical conductivity (EC) of milk is an indicator of mastitis, and could, if it shows genetic variation and is genetically correlated to mastitis, be used in a breeding program where selection for reduced mastitis resistance is included. In this study, daily measurements of EC and mastitis were analyzed with a bivariate model. For EC, the estimated heritability was high (0.22 to 0.39), while...

Introduction Mastitis is the most frequent and costly disease of dairy cattle. Losses due to mastitis can be attributed to both subclinical and clinical disease. Clinical mastitis losses are generally readily apparent and consist of discarded milk, transient reductions in milk yield and premature culling (Fetrow, 2000). Subclinical mastitis is considered the most economically important type of ...

When including clinical mastitis in the breeding goal, it is useful to know what measure of the trait is most appropriate and its relationship to the primary production traits and indicator traits in the relevant population. In this paper, genetic and phenotypic parameters for clinical mastitis, somatic cell production deviance, and protein yield were estimated for the dairy breed Danish Red. I...

The aim of the present study was to compare the occurrence and duration of clinical mastitis in different seasons, stages of lactation period and parities in a Holstein dairy farm in Iran. A retrospective epidemiological survey from April 2005 to March 2008 was conducted on 884 clinical mastitis cases of 7437 lactations. Data of each case including calendar-date of mastitis onset, days in milk ...

This review deals with the role of viruses in the aetiology of bovine mastitis. Bovine herpesvirus 1, bovine herpesvirus 4, foot-and-mouth disease virus, and parainfluenza 3 virus have been isolated from milk from cows with clinical mastitis. Intramammary inoculations of bovine herpesvirus 1 or parainfluenza 3 virus-induced clinical mastitis, while an intramammary inoculation of foot-and-mouth ...

conclusions iglm should be considered as one of the differential diagnoses when granulomas are encountered in breast fnac and biopsy. a definitive diagnosis of iglm can be made by identifying its characteristic histomorphology and ruling out other causes for granulomatous inflammation. an exact diagnosis is essential since the treatment for different granulomatous conditions of the breast varie...

thirtyfrieswal lactating cows were screened for clinical and subclinical mastitis and subsequently classified into healthy, subclinically affected and clinically affected groups each group comprising of 10 cows. polymorphism of cow lactoferrin (ltf) gene promoter was determined by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (pcr-rflp). the results showed that lft gene pro...

The aim of the present study was to compare the occurrence and duration of clinical mastitis in different seasons, stages of lactation period and parities in a Holstein dairy farm in Iran. A retrospective epidemiological survey from April 2005 to March 2008 was conducted on 884 clinical mastitis cases of 7437 lactations. Data of each case including calendar-date of mastitis onset, days in milk ...