Environmental mastitis: Control and prevention

Management of bedding and grazing paddocks is crucial to controlling environmental mastitis infections during lactation and in the dry period

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Cases of environmental mastitis are a result of opportunistic infections usually caused by environmental strains of streptococcus uberis and/or coliform bacteria such as E.coli.
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Cases of environmental mastitis are a result of opportunistic infections usually caused by environmental strains of streptococcus uberis and/or coliform bacteria such as E.coli.

Although the control of contagious mastitis infections among the UK's dairy herds has improved over recent years, cases of environmental mastitis are still seen within most herds, as a result of opportunistic...

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