The use of a cephalonium containing dry cow therapy and an internal teat sealant, both alone and in combination

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1566-1577

  Bradley, A J ^a,b   Breen, J E ^a,b   Payne, B ^a   Williams, P ^c   Green, M J ^b  

^a Quality Milk Management Services Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Intervet/Schering Plough Animal Health   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cephalonium; Dry cow therapy; Intramammary infection; Teat sealant

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFALONIUM; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BOVINE MASTITIS; CATTLE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; LACTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; PUERPERIUM; RANDOMIZATION; UDDER;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CATTLE; CEPHALOSPORINS; FEMALE; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 77949962015     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2009-2725     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Berry E.A., Hillerton J.E. The effect of an intramammary teat seal on new intramammary infections. J. Dairy Sci. 2002, 85:2512-2520.
2. Berry E.A., Hillerton J.E. The effect of selective dry cow treatment on new intramammary infections. J. Dairy Sci. 2002, 85:112-121.
3. Berry E.A., Hillerton J.E. Effect of an intramammary teat seal and dry cow antibiotic in relation to dry period length on postpartum mastitis. J. Dairy Sci. 2007, 90:760-765.
4. Bradley A. Bovine mastitis: An evolving disease. Vet. J. 2002, 164:116-128.
5. Bradley A.J., Green M.J. A study of the incidence and significance of intramammary enterobacterial infections acquired during the dry period. J. Dairy Sci. 2000, 83:1957-1965.
6. Bradley A.J., Green M.J. An investigation of the impact of intramammary antibiotic dry cow therapy on clinical coliform mastitis. J. Dairy Sci. 2001, 84:1632-1639.
7. Bradley A.J., Green M.J. The importance of the nonlactating period in the epidemiology of intramammary infection and strategies for prevention. Vet. Clin. North Am. Food Anim. Pract. 2004, 20:547-568.
8. Browne W.J. Applying MCMC Methods to Multilevel Models 1998, University of Bath, UK.
9. Darlington R.B. Multiple Tests in Regression and Linear Models 1990, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., New York, NY.
10. Dodd F.H., Westgarth D.R., Neave F.K., Kingwill R.G. Mastitis-The strategy of control. J. Dairy Sci. 1969, 52:689-695.
11. Godden S., Rapnicki P., Stewart S., Fetrow J., Johnson A., Bey R., Farnsworth R. Effectiveness of an internal teat seal in the prevention of new intramammary infections during the dry and early-lactation periods in dairy cows when used with a dry cow intramammary antibiotic. J. Dairy Sci. 2003, 86:3899-3911.
12. Green M.J., Burton P.R., Green L.E., Schukken Y.H., Bradley A.J., Peeler E.J., Medley G.F. The use of Markov chain Monte Carlo for analysis of correlated binary data: Patterns of somatic cells in milk and the risk of clinical mastitis in dairy cows. Prev. Vet. Med. 2004, 64:157-174.
13. Green M.J., Green L.E., Bradley A.J., Burton P.R., Schukken Y.H., Medley G.F. Prevalence and associations between bacterial isolates from dry mammary glands of dairy cows. Vet. Rec. 2005, 156:71-77.
14. Green M.J., Green L.E., Medley G.F., Schukken Y.H., Bradley A.J. Influence of dry period bacterial intramammary infection on clinical mastitis in dairy cows. J. Dairy Sci. 2002, 85:2589-2599.
15. Huxley J.N., Green M.J., Green L.E., Bradley A.J. Evaluation of the efficacy of an internal teat sealer during the dry period. J. Dairy Sci. 2002, 85:551-561.
16. Laboratory methods for use in mastitis work. Bulletin No. 132 1981, International Dairy Federation, IDF, Brussels, Belgium.
17. Enumeration of somatic cells. FIL-IDF Standard no. 148A 1995, International Dairy Federation, IDF, Brussels, Belgium.
18. Newton H.I., Green M.J., Benchaoui H., Cracknell V., Rowan T., Bradley A.J. Comparison of the efficacy of cloxacillin alone and cloxacillin combined with an internal teat sealant for dry cow therapy. Vet. Rec. 2008, 162:678-684.
19. Laboratory Handbook on Bovine Mastitis 1999, NMC, National Mastitis Council Inc., Madison, WI.
20. Oliver S.P. Frequency of isolation of environmental mastitis-causing pathogens and incidence of new intramammary infection during the nonlactating period. Am. J. Vet. Res. 1988, 49:1789-1793.
21. Quinn P.J., Carter M.E., Markey B., Carter G.R. Clinical Veterinary Microbiology 1994, Wolfe, London, UK.
22. Schukken Y.H., Kremer W.D., Lohuis J.A. Escherichia coli mastitis in cattle. I. Clinical diagnosis and epidemiological aspects. Tijdschr. Diergeneeskd. 1989, 114:829-838.
23. Smith A., Westgarth D.R., Jones M.R., Neave F.K., Dodd F.H., Brander G.C. Methods of reducing the incidence of udder infection in dry cows. Vet. Rec. 1967, 81:504-510.
24. Smith K.L., Todhunter D.A., Schoenberger P.S. Environmental pathogens and intramammary infection during the dry period. J. Dairy Sci. 1985, 68:402-417.
25. Wilson C.D., Westgarth D.R., Kingwill R.G., Griffin T.K., Neave F.K., Dodd F.H. The effect of infusion of sodium cloxacillin in all infected quarters of lactating cows in sixteen herds. Br. Vet. J. 1972, 128:71-86.
26. Woolford M.W., Williamson J.H., Day A.M., Copeman P.J.A. The prophylactic effect of a teat sealer on bovine mastitis during the dry period and the following lactation. N. Z. Vet. J. 1998, 46:12-19.