Mastitis

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  • Tools to Monitor Flock Nutritional Status and Udder Health – 2019 – Dr. Fred Muller and Dr. Lynn VanWieringen, Ag Health Laboratories.  A presentation on the services offered by Ag Health for milk analysis, feed analysis, manure analysis, and small ruminant disease testing (CL, Johnes, …).  It gives an overview of how the testing is done and what the results show.  It also goes over some information on preventing and treating different types of mastitis.

  • Prevention & Treatment of Mastitis - 2016. Paul D. Virkler - A really good overview of mastitis in dairy sheep including what to look for, guidelines for monitoring & determining bacteria type and methods of control.

  • Udder Health for Production of Quality Sheep Milk - 2015. Pamela L Ruegg, DVM. An article on the causes, detection, spread, prevention and treatment of mastitis.

  • Development of an Udder Health Course for Dairy Sheep – 2013 – Paula Menzies, Jocelyn Jansen, Michael Foran, Phillip Wilman, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Dept Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph.  A guide for maintaining udder health in dairy sheep for the purpose of producing high quality milk.

  • Ewe (& flock) Health Overview - 2012 - Eric D. Gordon, DVM The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. A look at major health issues with sheep including major disease prevention, internal parasites, mastitis (clinical, subclincial and causative agents), abortion disease, pregnancy toxemia, and milk fever.

  • MASTITIS IN DAIRY SHEEP - 2010 -  Pamela L. Ruegg, DVM, MPVM, Department of Dairy Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Introduction to defining, recognizing and testing for mastitis in sheep.

  • IMMUNITY AND THE MAMMARY GLAND DEFENSE SYSTEM - 2008 - Gabriel Leitner, National Mastitis Laboratory, Kimron Veterinary Institute. Discussion revolving around passive immunity and newborn lambs.

  • EFFECT OF DRY TREATMENT ON MASTITIS IN DAIRY SHEEP - 2008 - C. Spanu, Y. M. Berger, D. L. Thomas and P. L. Ruegg University of Wisconsin-Madison. Discussion of the intramammary antibiotic DT on the prevalence of intramammary infection in subsequent lactation

  • OVINE MASTITIS: OVERVIEW OF THE DISEASE AND A GUIDE TO ITS CONTROL - 2007 - G.C. Fthenakis* and I.A. Fragkou, Veterinary Faculty, University of Thessaly,, Karditsa, Greece. Good general overview of Mastitis, including clinical and sub-clinical,  and how to control it.

  • SOMATIC CELL COUNTS IN DAIRY SHEEP MILK - 2006 - G. Lagriffoul 1, F. Barillet 2, R. Rupp 2, X. Berthelot 3, D. Bergonier 3  Institut de l’Elevage - Comité National Brebis Laitières. Intensive discussion of somatic cell counts including clinical and sub-clinical Intramammary infections (IMI) diagnosis of staphylococci. Also details detection protocols, treatment strategies, and preventive methodologies 

  • Some advice for a good milking - 2004 -Billon. It is important to not only keep milking machinery well-maintained, but also for operators to follow good practices. In this article, the author focuses on before milking, during milking, after milking, and maintenance.

  • The evolution of factors concerning clinical mastitis in the Roquefort area from 1980 to 2000 - 2003 - Lepetitcolin. At the time of her presentation, there were 2,400 dairy sheep farms whose milk was made into Roquefort cheese. "Dairy references" (quotas) were developed during a period of oversupply that govern milk quality, price, and quotas. An association of veterinarians was formed to create a global approach to hygiene, transmit knowledge, and foster partnerships with technical experts. The  resulting 6-point mastitis control plan is summarised, as well as some statistics. In French with English summary.

  • Somatic cell counts and mammary infections on small ruminant dairies in Vermont - 2002 - Scruton. This is a summary of the papers "Prevalence and incidence of subclinical mastitis in goats and dairy ewes in Vermont, USA" and "Relationships among somatic cell count, California Mastitis Test, impedance and bacteriological status of milk in goats and sheep in early lactation", published in Small Ruminant Research.

  • Factors affecting the quality of ewe's milk - 2001 - Bencini. In this comprehensive article, the author defines milk quality, factors that affect quality.

  • Mastitis of sheep - overview of recent literature - 2000 - Menzies The author summaries the clinical features, occurrence, causes, diagnosis, risk factors, productivity impacts, treatment, and prevention of clinical and subclinical mastitis.

  • Heard Health Management and Record Keeping for Dairy Sheep. - 1999- Regli  Overview of good health management including mastitis and need for record keeping.

  • Health concerns in Dairy Sheep - 1995 - Wolf/Tondra - Introductory explanation of dairy sheep health, focusing on mastitis treatment and detection in the udder and in milk.