Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences· 2020· Review
Bovine mastitis: risk factors, therapeutic strategies, and alternative treatments — A review
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Short summary
Bovine mastitis, a prevalent mammary gland inflammation in dairy cattle, causes significant economic losses. This review synthesizes current knowledge on its risk factors, conventional antibiotic treatments, and the growing need for alternative therapies due to antibiotic resistance concerns.
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Key points
- Bovine mastitis is a major economic concern for the dairy industry.
- Antibiotic resistance is driving the search for alternative mastitis treatments.
- Risk factors include poor sanitation, milking hygiene, and machine maintenance.
- Natural products from plants and animals are being investigated as alternative therapies.
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Abstract
Bovine mastitis, an inflammation of the mammary gland, is the most common disease of dairy cattle causing economic losses due to reduced yield and poor quality of milk. The etiological agents include a variety of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, and can be either contagious (e.g., Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus agalactiae, Mycoplasma spp.) or environmental (e.g., Escherichia coli, Enterococcus spp., coagulase-negative Staphylococcus, Streptococcus uberis). Improving sanitation such as enhanced milking hygiene, implementation of post-milking teat disinfection, maintenance of milking machines are general measures to prevent new cases of mastitis, but treatment of active mastitis infection is dependant mainly on antibiotics. However, the extensive use of antibiotics increased concerns about emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens and that led the dairy industries to reduce the use of antibiotics. Therefore, alternative therapies for prevention and treatment of bovine mastitis, particularly natural products from plants and animals, have been sought. This review provides an overview of bovine mastitis in the aspects of risk factors, control and treatments, and emerging therapeutic alternatives in the control of bovine mastitis.
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