Udder Health and Communication

Front Matter....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
National mastitis control schemes: experiences from implementation of a nationwide scheme in Great Britain....Pages 21-32
Countdown Downunder: development led innovation in a national mastitis control program....Pages 33-42
The role of economics in motivating farmers to improve udder health....Pages 43-53
Effective communication to improve udder health: can social science help?....Pages 55-66
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Effects of health and welfare planning on the use of antibiotics and udder health in European dairy farms....Pages 69-76
The Danish udder health campaign: our milk – a pure pleasure....Pages 77-84
‘DEMO project udder health’: a first step towards a better udder health and milk quality in Flanders (Belgium)....Pages 85-89
Improvement of udder health following implementation of herd health plans in organic dairy farms: results of a pilot study in Germany....Pages 91-99
The effect of a national control program on mastitis occurrence in the Netherlands....Pages 101-108
€uroMilk mastitis control programme – a pilot study....Pages 109-109
CellCheck-a national initiative....Pages 110-110
Preventive animal health concepts in organic dairy farming: results of an interdisciplinary intervention study on mastitis and metabolic disorders in Germany....Pages 111-111
Online mastitis survey in Flanders, Belgium: first descriptive results....Pages 112-112
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Bulk milk quality: can it be improved by dairy farm audits?....Pages 115-122
Internet data services from maritime quality milk: tools for tracking milk quality....Pages 123-128
Systems analysis of high somatic cell counts on dairy farms....Pages 129-130
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A Bayesian approach demonstrating that incorporation of practitioners’ clinical beliefs into research design is crucial for effective knowledge transfer....Pages 133-140
Enhancing udder health with clinical communication skills: evidence based communication frameworks for the 22 nd century....Pages 141-148
Udder health management improvement: Insights from agent-based modelling....Pages 149-156
Usage of milking gloves and teat sealer on German dairy farms....Pages 157-162
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Communication research from other healthcare disciplines and its application to udder-health management....Pages 163-163
Attitudes with regard to animal management of farmers with an automatic milking system and their relationship with udder health....Pages 164-164
Farmer-veterinarian communication in the new Danish herd health program: changing responsibilities in relation to mastitis treatment and udder health promotion....Pages 165-165
Dairy farmers’ knowledge, attitude and behaviour towards udder health in Switzerland....Pages 166-166
Impact of communication strategies for milkers on udder health program....Pages 167-167
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Potentials and limitations of systematic clinical examinations in farmer-veterinarian collaboration for improved udder health in the new Danish herd health program....Pages 171-177
Veterinary on-farm counselling on dairy farms: the veterinarians’ vision....Pages 179-185
Organizing external communication in the veterinary practice....Pages 186-186
Presenting uncertainty and variability to the decision maker: A computer program that uses Monte Carlo simulations to improve the management of the dry period....Pages 187-187
Dairy farmer and the veterinarian: an issue of communication....Pages 188-188
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Bilingual trainings for milkers in New York State: a success for quality milk....Pages 191-196
A coordinated udder health training strategy in Quebec, Canada....Pages 197-203
Focus courses....Pages 204-204
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 Ex-ante assessment of profitability of a new control plan for mastitis as a motivation tool for dairy farmers....Pages 207-212
Costs and benefits of mastitis management measures on individual dairy farms....Pages 213-220
Estimating the impact of mastitis on the profitability of Irish dairy farms....Pages 221-228
The effect of udder health on cow fertility: understanding the costs....Pages 229-229
A partial budget analysis to estimate the economics of a mastitis vaccination program....Pages 230-230
Determination of economic loss from depressed udder health....Pages 231-231
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Characterization of MRSA from bulk tank milk of dairy herds using a commercial microarray....Pages 235-241
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Mastitis diagnostics: qPCR for Staphylococcus aureus genotype B in bulk tank milk....Pages 243-249
Identification of coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species by gas chromatography....Pages 251-258
Real time PCR values for mastitis pathogens – relations to milk quality and herd characteristics in Danish dairy herds....Pages 259-263
The use of strain typing as an on farm tool to highight particular points of interest in the control of Staphylococcus aureus mastitis....Pages 264-264
Estimation of the diagnostic accuracy of a multiplex real-time PCR assay and bacteriological culture for four bovine intramammary pathogens....Pages 265-265
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Promoting judicious antibiotic use: On-farm culture-based treatment strategies....Pages 269-275
Efficacy of the selective treatment of clinical mastitis based on on-farm culture results....Pages 277-284
Field study on acute mastitis with SIRS and different treatment regimes....Pages 285-292
Efficacy of two fresh cow subclinical mastitis treatment programs....Pages 293-293
Effect of the combination of Tylan 200® & Penicillin G in the treatment of mastitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus and/or Streptococcus uberis....Pages 294-294
Use of Tylan 200® for the treatment of mastitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus and/or Streptococcus uberis ....Pages 295-295
Therapeutic effects of lactation treatment of bovine subclinical Staphylococcus aureus mastitis with penicillin....Pages 296-296
 In vitro activity profile of a kanamycin and cefalexin combination against coagulase-negative staphylococci and correlation between MIC and disk zone sizes....Pages 297-297
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Monitoring treatment outcomes: understanding and managing expectations....Pages 301-308
Use of in-line measurements of somatic cell count to evaluate treatment efficacy of subclinical bovine Staphylococcus aureus mastitis....Pages 309-315
‘Therapy evaluation’: a useful tool for practitioners....Pages 317-321
Dynamics of udder infection and effect of dry cow therapy validated by test day samples....Pages 322-322
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Subclinical mastitis in Dutch dairy heifers in early lactation and associated risk factors....Pages 325-330
Risk factors associated with bacteriological quality of bulk tank milk in the Netherlands....Pages 331-335
The efficacy of two iodine teat dips based on naturally occurring new intramammary infections....Pages 337-342
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Manageable risk factors associated with incidence and elimination of Staphylococcus aureus intramammary infections....Pages 343-343
Factors influencing average herd somatic cell count in France in 2005 and 2006....Pages 344-344
Risk factors associated with intramammary infections caused by the more pathogenic CNSspecies....Pages 345-345
Management of udder-thigh dermatitis on dairy cattle: epidemiological and bacteriological data....Pages 346-346
Survey of bulk tank milk from all Danish dairy herds in 2009 and 2010 with real-time PCR....Pages 347-347
Bedding conditioners for reduction of infectious pressure by mastitis pathogens – does their use make sense?....Pages 348-348
Epidemiological and microbiological characteristics of Streptococcus uberis as mastitis pathogen in Swiss dairy herds....Pages 349-349
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Immunological response to an experimental intramammary inoculation with a killed Staphylococcus aureus strain in vaccinated and non-vaccinated lactating dairy cows....Pages 353-358
Feasibility of high immune response (HIR) technology as a health management tool to characterize immune response profiles of dairy cattle....Pages 359-366
Polymorphism screening and association study of CXCR1 with udder health in dairy heifers....Pages 367-372
Genomic regions associated with somatic cell score in dairy cattle....Pages 373-380
Efficacy of a Staphylococcus aureus biofilm-embedded bacterin against coagulase-negative staphylococci intramammary infections in dairy cows....Pages 381-381
Effect of introducing OrbeSeal into a dry cow management programme and the impact on farm economics....Pages 382-382
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Udder health in herds with automatic milking....Pages 385-390
Alert preferences of dairy farmers working with automatic milking systems....Pages 391-398
The role of sensor measurements in treating mastitis on farms with an automatic milking system....Pages 399-406
Influence of milk yield and take-off settings on milking parlour performance and udder health....Pages 407-414
Bacterial migration through teat canal related to liner action....Pages 415-415
Classification of mouthpiece chamber vacuum records in milking-time tests....Pages 416-416
Key messages for an efficient udder preparation routine....Pages 417-417
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Effects of material, shape and mouthpiece venting on liner performance....Pages 418-418
Wearing gloves for milking in Western New York: To wear or not to wear?....Pages 419-419
New technology for vacuum-logging during milking helps advisor....Pages 420-420
The world of post milking teat disinfectants: features, uses and risks....Pages 421-421
Back Matter....Pages 423-428