August 2012
Estimating the effect of mastitis on the profitability of Irish dairy farms. Herd-level association between antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance in bovine mastitisStaphylococcus aureus isolates on Canadian dairy farms. The STARTVAC® Symposium about "Results of Mastitis Vaccination" achieved a great success of participation during the World Buiatrics Congress 2012. HIPRA in collaboration with the QMPS organizes a bovine mastitis course in Cornell University.
"Vaccination can certainly play an important role on mastitis control" (by Andrew Bradley)
The key finding of the study conducted by Bradley and his team in the UK on the use of STARTVAC® mastitis vaccine was the reduction in the severity of the mastitis cases:
"We found that STARTVAC® reduced the severity of clinical mastitis. On top of that, it reduced the amount of culling associated with clinical mastitis. Interestingly, it was also related to an increase in milk production", says Director of Quality Milk Management Services Ltd and Clinical Reader in Dairy Production Medicine.
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