Mastitis

Hartpury College

Fdsc Equine Science

Animal Microbiology

Diagnosis and treatment of disease

UIN XGJ-10-1

Amanda Finch

Date Set: 20th September 2010

Date due: 17th November 2010

Contents page Page

Title page i

List of contents ii

1.0 Summary 1

2.0 Introduction 2,3

3.0 Method 3

4.0 Result 4

5.0 Discussion 4

6.0 Conclusion 5

References 6

1.0 Summary
Mastitis, the most common cause is Staphylococcus aureus. Mastitis is usually followed by swelling and redness of the cow’s udder. Testing for this you would use a strip cup test to see if the bacterium is present. You then take the result for this and see how bad the bacterium is, so then you would be able to carry out more investigations and be able to find out control methods. These methods would be hygiene and regularly cleaning the milking machines.
2.0 Introduction
Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most important causes of

References: (Blowey, R.B. (2009) Mastitis control in dairy herds. 2nd ed. Oxfordshire: Peter Edmondson) Haskell, R.H. (2008) Blackwell’s five minute veterinary consult. 1st ed. United Kingdom: Wiley Production (Radosits, M.R. (2001) Herd Health.3rd ed. United States of America: W.B Saunders Company) Assessed from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20729012 Assessed from: http://www.lrrd.org/lrrd17/11/mdeg17123.htm Assessed from: http://www.thecattlesite.com/diseaseinfo/179/mastitis